This TransUnion Data Breach Affected 4.4 Million Consumers
One of the three main credit offices to American consumers was raped, leaving data of more than 4.4 million people exposed to pirates. Transunion, which maintains credit information on 200 million consumers in the United States and shares this information with 65,000 other organizations, has just disclosed a violation that occurred last month in the midst of the greater Salesforce data.
What happened to Transunion?
According to an opinion of data violation submitted to the Maine Attorney General, a “cyber-incident involving a request for third parties” took place in transunion on July 28, allowing threat actors to unauthorized access to certain personal information from American consumers. The letter distributed to affected states that credit reports and “basic credit information” were not included in the violation, although the company has not disclosed details on what was compromise. The breach was discovered on July 30.
As BleepingCompute reports, the incident is linked to a series of recent attacks by the Shinyhuters piracy group on Salesforce, a major customer relations management platform (CRM). The other companies linked to Salesforce that have been affected include Google, Workday, Allianz Life and a handful of large retailers like Adidas and LVMH.
What Transunion customers must do now
Transunion began to inform consumers affected on August 26, so be looking for a letter from the company. Anyone whose data has been compromised can register at 24 months of free credit surveillance provided by my true identity – which belongs to transunion – including protective and $ 1 million protection and identity insurance services.
To register via the My True Identity website, you will need the unique activation code of your letter, and you will need to provide an e-mail address and check certain personal information. Note that the offer is valid for 90 days from the date of the opinion.
What do you think so far?
If you have not already done so, you should also freeze your credit with each of the three main credit offices (Equifax, Experian and Transunion) to prevent bad players from opening accounts on your behalf. If you think your social security number or other information has been compromised, you can place a fraud alert in an office, which will share it with the other two. You must also take other measures to lock your identity, including monitoring all your accounts and the declaration of the activity immediately suspicious.
If you need to talk to someone with the breach transunion, you can call 800-516-4700 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. HE from Monday to Friday.
