Matthew Yglesias is on vacation. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who has a reputation for going after data brokers, has sent a letter to the CEO of Experian after learning that one of the credit ...

What you need to know about that hack that exposed personal info of 15 million. — -- A massive data breach at Experian, one of the country's major credit rating bureaus that companies use to ...

Update: T-Mobile has reached out and clarified that the breach affects current and former customers who went through a credit check. Anyone who did not go through a credit check is unaffected.

Regulators from several states are investigating a data breach from a subsidiary of the credit-tracking behemoth Experian. The investigation by attorneys general in these states concerns whether the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the pervasive, yet little-understood auto industry. So-called “synthetic” fraud has a particularly nasty form, where the ...

Q: Around July 11, I received a letter from the Social Security Administration notifying me that an online SSA account had recently been created in my name. I didn't create an online account. I don't ...

In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply ...

CPNs, valid numbers or a scam? That's the conversation that started taking TikTok by storm after a woman posted saying she used a CPN, or credit privacy number, to apply for a rental home.

UPDATE: Experian tells Consumerist that its authentication processes go farther than previously identified steps. The company regularly reviews its security practices and adjusts as needed. Placing a ...

According to recent reports, the average American’s FICO credit score is 695, the highest in a string of steady increases over the past several years. While considered a pretty “good” score, a ...

T-Mobile has confirmed this evening that as many as 15 million of its customers have been affected by a data breach. As the company is quick to point out, however, the breach did not occur on its ...

bburdge[/url]":3bwuzzrm]At this point is there anything secret about anyone's SSN? It seems silly to keep tying important things like a person's credit to a single piece of information that is easily ...