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annsixty Tue 24-Oct-17 11:42:26

I have just received a letter from Equifax saying my personal data has been accessed.
I have never had any dealings with this company or any other company of that sort.
So, do these companies hold information on everyone.
The information accessed was, my name and date of birth, my driving licence number and my telephone number.
They want me to ring them to set up some form of alert to my details being used for fraudulent purposes.
Is this a way of getting me to use their services?
I am very perplexed. Shall I just ignore it?

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Riverwalk Tue 24-Oct-17 11:56:29

Equifax in the US was recently hacked in a major way, and many people in the UK are affected:

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You don't need to have been a direct user of their services to have been affected but it's likely that most of us are on their books via their service users e.g banks, building societies, store cards, etc

The problem is knowing if this is a genuine letter from them or a scam in itself.

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Primrose65 Tue 24-Oct-17 12:06:23

I would ignore it.

At best, it's Equifax trying to sell you an alert service (when it's their fault that the data was hacked) and at worst it's a scam.
You can get a copy of all the data Equifax hold for £2 using their website or plenty of other sites such as Noddle have this information for free.

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merlotgran Tue 24-Oct-17 12:09:03

You have to be so wary of these things. This morning I got an e-mail asking if I'd like to see my credit score. I clicked on it out of interest and once I'd got past the name, address, DOB etc., it asked for my card details including the security number on the back.

Yer right....hmm

I would be tempted to leave well alone, annsixty

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