Why should we have to pay for credit reporting firm’s blunder?

The following article by Bob Collins was posted on the Minnesota Public Radio website September 13, 2017:

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Like everyone else with a credit card, my data was among that stolen from the ginormous Equifax credit reporting company. Assuming the hackers knew what they were doing, it won’t be long before they try to steal my identity.

They got our Social Security numbers in the hack.

“That puts you at peril of identity theft for as long as you’ve got a beating heart,” the Chicago Tribune says in an editorial today.

I don’t have much choice in this underreported affair; I have to freeze my credit at not only Equifax, but every other major credit reporting firm. Continue reading “Why should we have to pay for credit reporting firm’s blunder?”