It took probably 20 minutes to create free accounts at Experian, TransUnion and Equifax to freeze my credit and prevent anyone else from using that breached data.

Should have done this years ago.

NerdWallet link with instructions to freeze your credit.

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ETA: Experian seem like real slimeballs. 24 hours after I froze my credit, they sent me an email with a login link saying "don't forget to START your security freeze."

That email link gave no free way to confirm my credit freeze, only options to buy paid monitoring subscriptions.

So I logged in again with the free URL in the NerdWallet article, using the credentials I created the day before, and found that my credit was frozen as I configured it.

Scary to think people this sleazy control your credit report.

This post was edited on 4/21/24 at 10:56 am

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Posted by Arkapigdiesel

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Member since Jun 2009

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Posted on 4/21/24 at 7:00 pm to WB Davis

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Experian, TransUnion and Equifax - freeze my credit

I'd go to ChexSystems also and freeze your info. The piece of shite hacker fricks can still open bank accounts if you don't freeze your info with ChexSystems. Banks don't pull credit when opening checking, savings, etc. They use ChexSystems to pull your history in order to see how you managed your liquid accounts.

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Posted by SpartanSoul

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Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:51 pm to WB Davis

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ETA: Experian seem like real slimeballs.

They also want you to pay to put a fraud alert on your report. It's best to do the fraud alert at Transunion for free and they will forward it to the other two.

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