PSA on the Equifax breach:

You can enter most anything into their "check if I've been breached" thing and it will say you've been breached.

The whole site they set up is just a scam to force people into signing up for their "identity protection service." You get a year free but you better believe they'll start charging you for it after that, and the opt-out process is never easy.

Don't buy into it. Just keep an eye on your credit report and credit/bank account statements.

@mawr plus using it forces you into forced arbitration to keep you from suing

(whether it'd hold up in court, who knows, still nasty)

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@goatmoat Yeah-- @Trev@icosahedron.website mentioned that too; here was my response to him:

Several attorneys have pointed out that such a clause is not enforceable and publicly demanded that Equifax remove it from their site. It's all part of the scam.

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