MSE News: Massive Equifax data breach - what you need to know

For those who know internet memes: Patrick Stewart Mild Shock Gif here.


For everyone else. This is just sad, not a shock.


What is disgusting is that Equifax knew they were hacked for nearly 2 months before telling the public. So people can have had their identities stolen because of this breach yet be left in the dark as to why.


There needs to be a law in the US, UK and elsewhere that says if your personal information gets leaked, that you are told the moment the company who lost it is aware of it. I think the new EU laws replacing the UK DPA may address this but the US needs to get up to speed also.


If there has been UK data lost too as well as US data, Equifax needs to tell the UK ICO right now, yesterday even.

Jezzamk wrote: »

It is disgusting that Equifax is letting US citizens check if their data has been hacked but not those in the UK.

Although I have never used Equifax my data is probably on their systems as data is sourced from all sorts of places.

I think that they should have their UK licence suspended until we are given the same access as US citizens.

Due to the nature of the business and the time it has taken them to discover and reveal the data loss I hope that they are given a record fine and forced to compensate all victims.

Almost a certainty, I'd say, along with most people in the UK. I echo your sentiments. About time somebody came clean on this one.

For anyone worried about their Clearscore data as they use Equifax, here is their statement:

https://help.clearscore.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/336/0/information-for-clearscore-customers-about-equifax-us-data-breach

They state "We do not believe that this incident affects ClearScore".

Some people also state that they do not believe in Father Christmas, but most of us know he is real so it does not fill me with confidence:D

Jezzamk wrote: »

It is disgusting that Equifax is letting US citizens check if their data has been hacked but not those in the UK.

give me a reason why they would care about the uk, we just provide a bit of additional income that is all any of these DCAs care about.

What I think is equally amusing is that MSE only woke up to this on the 12th Sep. That's: 5 days after the telegraph story. 6 days after first reports. 6 weeks after Equifax knew 6 months after the hack If it were a new 0% balance transfer offer, you'd have know a week before it happened! Then the article MSE ran was titled : "Massive Equifax data breach - what you need to know" But by the end of the article I realised that MSE had no advice of any significance at all, so given the inevitable worry, maybe ignorance would have been preferable. If after all you are gonna run a stale article, at least bring something new to the party. I'm afraid to say it is a wakeup call. So called 'consumer champions' are only there for us when they can make a buck. On issues like this, they are irrelevant.