Friends, you can check here to see if Equifax believes they lost your data in the 3 month long data breach:

http://ift.tt/2wcZjr3

They are offering their identity protection to anyone they believe is affected, but the enrollment is staggered because of the volume (143 million) believed to be affected. The above link will give you a date when you can return to continue enrollment in your enrollment group. I got a week from today.

They put up a website about the data breach, http://ift.tt/2xdYnYt, which also links to the above page.
Equifax website hack exposes data for ~143 million US consumers

Breach affecting 44 percent of US population is one of the biggest yet.

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