As the largest-ever settlement for a data breach heads toward court approval, you may want to consider unfreezing your credit report. Here's how.

The Equifax hacking has cast a pall of uncertainty over an estimated 143 million Americans who could be facing a serious threat of identity theft.

If you’re looking to unfreeze your credit but lost your PIN, don’t fret: TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax still make it possible to unfreeze your credit.

When you freeze your credit report, it becomes inaccessible to both thieves and new lenders. A credit freeze is a step you can take through the three major credit reporting bureaus -- Equifax ...

You can freeze and unfreeze your credit through each credit bureau's website. As long as your information checks out, the bureau must lift the freeze within an hour if the request is made online.

What should Equifax victims do about a credit freeze, if they plan to take out a mortgage or a car loan soon. More important, where do you complain?

One of the big three credit bureaus, Equifax, on Thursday confessed what's almost unbelievable -- it's been hit by a massive cybersecurity breach that compromised Social Security numbers ...

The legislation, named the Freedom from Equifax Exploitation Act, would force credit reporting bureaus such as Equifax, Experian and TransUnion to allow consumers to freeze and unfreeze their ...

The latest is that its MyEquifax.com site, to which the company invites those affected by its poor security practices to freeze and unfreeze their credit, itself has extremely poor security.

TransUnion Like Equifax, TransUnion allows you to create an online account through which you can freeze and unfreeze your credit (you can also download the myTransUnion mobile app).

The largest data breach in U.S. history? Equifax — one of the nation's three major credit reporting companies — announced this month that it was hacked, exposing sensitive personal information ...