Tag: Data Breach

You May Be Entitled to Free Credit Monitoring or $125 Cash Payment

by Fred Fuld III

Equifax has set up a website for the settlement of the data breach back in September of 2017.

If you have been impacted, you can file a claim and receive free credit monitoring, or if you already have credit monitoring, you can request a $125 cash payment.

In addition, you may be able to claim for time you spent to remedy the misuse of your personal information, assuming you can provide documentation.

To see if you have been impacted, go to the following site, scroll down and click on the Find Out If Your Information Has Been Impacted button.

https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com

To file a claim, go to the following link:

https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/file-a-claim

 

How to Check if your Facebook Data was used by Cambridge Analytica

I won’t review the information about Facebook (FB) and Cambridge Analytica, as the news is all over the place. However, many users of Facebook want to find out if their Facebook data was used by Cambridge Analytica, and are awaiting for notification on their Facebook page.

No need to wait. Go to the following link with will bring you to Facebook’s Help Page on the incident, where you can find out if your info was shared.

https://www.facebook.com/help/1873665312923476

If you are not logged in to Facebook, it will give you a message asking you to log in first.

If you are logged in, you will get a screen that looks like the following:

Facebook Data Help

The bottom box will show you whether or not your data was shared.