I think it is a shame that almost all americans were hacked with this. I did some research online but it seems that credit monitoring companies dont really help and the only thing to do is like you say place a freeze on your credit.
Not just a majority of Americans. A majority of Britons were compromised by this attack as well, as well as others. This is the problem with mass centralization of data. Who the hell thought permanently binding a unique plaintext number to each citizen was a good idea?
Financial institutions pass around our most personal information everyday like nothing. And when one of them screws up like this? You're not getting assigned a new social security number, I know that much.....
I haven't been notified about being compromised yet. I can't tell if that means that Equifax isn't notifying people, as required by law, or if I am in the clear for now.
