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Yea, when I read that the claim group had ballooned I changed my ‘compensation’ to be 5 years of their crap service for identity theft monitoring. I figured th

Yea, when I read that the claim group had ballooned I changed my ‘compensation’ to be 5 years of their crap service for identity theft monitoring. I figured that was worth more than $5… though it is debatable.

sva_ 4y ago
You can probably buy those datasets for much less per row.
schemescape 4y ago
Of course, that's really 5 years of Experian trying to upsell you to their paid (out of pocket) services. Why can't I set it to email me only if there's a change? Why does it need to send me email every month?
- Fatnino 4y ago
  Equifax, not Experian
  - schemescape 4y ago
    No, they offered me Experian monitoring: > You filed a claim in the Equifax Data Breach Settlement and chose to receive free, three-bureau (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) credit monitoring from Experian for four years.
rkagerer 4y ago
The notion that identity theft monitoring is sufficient mitigation to a customer after a breach like this is laughable. I'm concerned as the tend becomes normalized, when someone does finally bring a challenge in court where that's one of the matters to be dealt with, the company will simply say "industry standard".
fatnoah 4y ago
I didn't even bother because I figured the cash would be meaningless, and I've already got monitoring because my info was part of the OPM breach a while back where all of the same information plus my secret clearance background check info, fingerprints, and toeprints were leaked.
Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
The fact that people would pay for credit monitoring is strange to me. Credit Karma is free, and has been very good. When I applied to finance a car online, within 15 seconds of me pressing "Submit" on the web page, I had an e-mail from Credit Karma that someone did a hard pull of my credit report. Does the identity theft service you got do anything more than that that you would actually use?

sva_ 4y ago

You can probably buy those datasets for much less per row.

schemescape 4y ago

Of course, that's really 5 years of Experian trying to upsell you to their paid (out of pocket) services. Why can't I set it to email me only if there's a change? Why does it need to send me email every month?

Fatnino 4y ago
Equifax, not Experian
- schemescape 4y ago
  No, they offered me Experian monitoring: > You filed a claim in the Equifax Data Breach Settlement and chose to receive free, three-bureau (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) credit monitoring from Experian for four years.

rkagerer 4y ago

The notion that identity theft monitoring is sufficient mitigation to a customer after a breach like this is laughable. I'm concerned as the tend becomes normalized, when someone does finally bring a challenge in court where that's one of the matters to be dealt with, the company will simply say "industry standard".

fatnoah 4y ago

I didn't even bother because I figured the cash would be meaningless, and I've already got monitoring because my info was part of the OPM breach a while back where all of the same information plus my secret clearance background check info, fingerprints, and toeprints were leaked.

Sohcahtoa82 4y ago

The fact that people would pay for credit monitoring is strange to me. Credit Karma is free, and has been very good. When I applied to finance a car online, within 15 seconds of me pressing "Submit" on the web page, I had an e-mail from Credit Karma that someone did a hard pull of my credit report. Does the identity theft service you got do anything more than that that you would actually use?