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How to Opt Out of Equifax Revealing Your Salary History

November 13, 2017 admin Amazon, AT&T, Equifax, Equifax breach, Facebook, Fast Company, Joel Winston, Marisa Salcines, microsoft, Oracle, Other, TALX, The Work Number, Twitter, Wal-Mart

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:55:19 +0000

A KrebsOnSecurity series on how easy big-three credit bureau Equifax makes it to get detailed salary history data on tens of millions of Americans apparently inspired a deeper dive on the subject by Fast Company, which examined how this Equifax division has been one of the company’s best investments. In this post, I’ll show you how to opt out of yet another Equifax service that makes money at the expense of your privacy.

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Equifax Reopens Salary Lookup Service

November 2, 2017 admin Equifax, Equifax breach, National Mortgage News, Other, Spokeo, TALX, The Work Number, Zillow

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:04:20 +0000

Equifax has re-opened a Web site that lets anyone look up the salary history of a large portion of the American workforce using little more than a person’s Social Security number and their date of birth. The big-three credit bureau took the site down just hours after I wrote about it on Oct. 8, and began restoring the site eight days later saying it had added unspecified “security enhancements.”

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Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

October 10, 2017 admin Equifax, national cybersecurity awareness month, Other, TALX, The Work Number

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 18:56:50 +0000

In May, KrebsOnSecurity broke a story about lax security at a payroll division of big-three credit bureau Equifax that let identity thieves access personal and financial data on an unknown number of Americans. Incredibly, this same division makes it simple to access detailed salary and employment history on a large portion of Americans using little more than someone’s Social Security number and date of birth — both data elements that were stolen in the recent breach at Equifax.