Buffalo, NY (WBEN) That 2017 Equifax data breach has led to a $700 million settlement, and now you have your chance to get a share of that settlement.
State Attorney General Tish James says "Equifax put profit over people and profit over privacy, and it included information like social security, date of birth, credit cards," in that data breach. She says there will be outreach through the media as well as her office.
The breach was one of the largest ever to threaten Americans’ private information. The credit reporting company didn’t notice the intruders targeting its databases, who exploited a known security vulnerability that Equifax hadn’t fixed, for more than six weeks.
The deadline to file a claim is Jan. 22, 2020.