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CNBC Select dives into the $23 million settlement TransUnion agreed to after plaintiffs accused it of failing to remove invalid credit inquiries.
The bureau said that Equifax — which processes 765,000 disputes per month — violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act which mandates that credit reporting agencies investigate disputed information and ...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has fined Equifax Inc. $15 million for failing to properly investigate consumer disputes, leading to inaccurate credit scores and data.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has imposed a $15 million fine on Equifax for failing to adequately investigate consumer disputes.
Equifax surveilled 1,000 remote workers, fired 24 found juggling two jobs Equifax used its own worker surveillance product to spy on workers fired.
A handful of the employees reported having three jobs simultaneously. Equifax used its own employment-tracking product to identify and investigate its employees.
Equifax investigated and fired at least 24 remote workers for secretly holding second jobs. The company used The Work Number, one of its own products, to track the peoples' employment records ...
Credit-reporting giant Equifax has fired at least two dozen employees for working undisclosed jobs, and used extensive work-history records it holds on more than 100 million Americans to catch ...
Officials said the Equifax investigation started with only 40 IP addresses that were used during the cyber-attack.
In a sweeping nine-count indictment, the DOJ alleged that four members of China’s People’s Liberation Army were behind the Equifax hack, the culmination of a years-long investigation.
Equifax has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a series of state and federal investigations into a massive 2017 data breach that left more than 147 million Americans’ names, Social Security ...
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