bburdge[/url]":3bwuzzrm]At this point is there anything secret about anyone's SSN? It seems silly to keep tying important things like a person's credit to a single piece of information that is easily ...

What you need to know about that hack that exposed personal info of 15 million. — -- A massive data breach at Experian, one of the country's major credit rating bureaus that companies use to ...

Matthew Yglesias is on vacation. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who has a reputation for going after data brokers, has sent a letter to the CEO of Experian after learning that one of the credit ...

In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply ...

Update: T-Mobile has reached out and clarified that the breach affects current and former customers who went through a credit check. Anyone who did not go through a credit check is unaffected.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the pervasive, yet little-understood auto industry. So-called “synthetic” fraud has a particularly nasty form, where the ...

Regulators from several states are investigating a data breach from a subsidiary of the credit-tracking behemoth Experian. The investigation by attorneys general in these states concerns whether the ...

T-Mobile has confirmed this evening that as many as 15 million of its customers have been affected by a data breach. As the company is quick to point out, however, the breach did not occur on its ...