Claim Your $125 Settlement from the 2017 Equifax Breach
In September of 2017, Equifax announced that it had experienced a data breach, which impacted the personal information of a staggering 147 million people! As the US Population was estimated to be 325 million in 2017, this represents almost half (45%) of the US!
Claim Your Equifax 2017 Data Breach $125 Cash Settlement
A federal court is considering a proposed class action settlement, that, if approved by the Court, would resolve lawsuits brought by consumers after the data breach.
If your personal data was impacted by the brief, you may be eligible for a cash payment of $125. You may also be eligible for:
- free credit monitoring
- other cash payments depending on
- your time spent
- your losses
- cost of credit / identity monitoring services
- free identity restoration services for 7 years
Equifax Data Breach Settlement Options including $125 Cash Payment
It only takes 30 seconds to check your eligibility and see if your data was affected. The quick online search only requires 2 items (your last name and the last 6 digits of your Social Security number).
If you were affected, you can easily File a Claim online to request either:
- Free Credit Monitoring
- a $125 Cash Payment (either paid by check or prepaid card)
NOTE that this program is available to every person in your household who was affected — make sure to check the eligibility of each family member!!
The initial claims period deadline is 1/22/2020, so make sure to file a claim by the deadline in order to receive your settlement!
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Note that Equifax denies any wrongdoing, and no judgment or finding of wrongdoing has been made.
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As this affected over 147 million people, please share with friends, family, and associates so that they may also receive their Equifax settlement benefits!
Rewards programs are a great tool to save and get some real cool bargains on products, services, holidays, travel, the works.
It is wise to sign up for a lot of these programs, and utilise them to advantage where you can.
This can apply to credit reporting and information obtaining as well.
Why not take the time to hop online and see if you are eligible, it cannot hurt and with the IT security breaches that are out there nowadays, there may be more of this to come.
Oof, let’s hope there aren’t many more of these…
I have heard of this breach by hackers on Equifax! But I didn’t think I qualified. reading your post has made me realize that my kids may have been victims! the post was very informative I will certainly use the information to see if we affected!
I also heard that Experian was also breached by hackers. Do you have any information on them? thanks
This particular breach specifically deals with the 2017 Equifax data breach. Definitely check each of your family members, as you may be surprised at just how pervasive the breach was!
I’m not aware of an Experian breach, but please share if you do find additional information.
Wow thanks! These sorts of things are important to know about as they could get swept under the carpet lots of times. Class actions keep companies accountable which is a good thing. With so much personal data being transferred by billions of people every day it’s good to know that accountability is out there. I’ll definitely be checking out your link to see if I qualify, thanks again!
Great! Hopefully your data wasn’t affected, but if it was, I do hope you will help to make them accountable!
I am so grateful to you for bringing this to my attention. It’s something I’ve actually been wanting to do – get credit monitoring – and now you’ve offered me a way to get it for free for 12 months. Fantastic. Now I’m not excited that I came up affected because that’s actually scary to think about but at least now I have the peace of mind knowing that if my credit is touched I will get an alert. It’s super easy. I clicked file a claim and chose option 1 and got a confirmation. Thanks again. Super information.
Glad that you found it to be a quick an easy process to get that free 12 month credit monitoring!
Hi
I saw the Netflix documentary ‘The Great Hack’. The documentary was about data breaches that affected elections and social movements. Data was stolen from hundreds of millions of people. The company was Cambridge-Analytica. Is there a connection between the breaches in ‘The Great Hack’ and this settlement?
I realize that only USA citizens can claim on this settlement, however, being a citizen of a country who is also being targeted by data theft, is there any settlements going on outside the USA?
I am grateful that you would offer this recourse, I am shocked at these companies’ blatant disregard for people’s privacy.
regards
Aaron
Hi Aaron, I have had other friends mention the movie The Great Hack as something that we all need to see. I haven’t seen it yet, but it sounds like it’s a real eye-opener that we all need to be aware of. I do plan to watch it soon – thanks for the reminder!
I’m not aware of actions in other countries, but people have been succesfully suing Equifax in the US small claims courts for “small” amounts in the $8,000 range since the month the breach was announced (September 2017).
It seems that the best way to stop this from happening is to make it very costly for those who are careless with our information. Every single person who files a claim against them will help to safeguard our data against future breaches.