{"id":92810,"date":"2017-09-09T07:54:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T12:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=92810"},"modified":"2017-09-09T07:54:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T12:54:37","slug":"ohio-a-g-has-equifax-data-breach-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/09\/09\/ohio-a-g-has-equifax-data-breach-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio A-G has Equifax data breach tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

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COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine offers tips for consumers following the recent announcement by Equifax, one of the country’s three main credit reporting bureaus, of a data breach affecting some 143 million United States consumers.<\/p>\n

Equifax has reported that the information was compromised between May and July of this year and includes\u00a0names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and driver\u2019s license numbers. The data breach also included the credit card numbers of approximately 209,000 U.S. consumers, according to Equifax.<\/p>\n

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\u201cData breaches involving Social Security numbers are especially serious,\u201d Attorney General DeWine said. \u201cIf your information has been compromised, take the time to understand what that means and how you can better protect yourself moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

To see if your personal information was impacted by the breach, visit\u00a0www.equifaxsecurity2017.com<\/a>.\u00a0 You will be prompted to enter your last name and part of your Social Security number, at which point Equifax will inform you if your information was involved in the breach.<\/p>\n

Regardless of whether or not one\u2019s information was accessed, Equifax is offering one year of free enrollment in \u201cTrustedID Premier\u201d for all U.S. customers if you enroll by November 21, 2017.\u00a0 TrustedID is a credit monitoring service that monitors all three major credit reporting bureaus — Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian — as well as provides consumers with copies of their Equifax credit report.\u00a0Ohioans can sign up for this feature by visiting\u00a0www.equifaxsecurity2017.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tips for affected consumers include:<\/p>\n