The Montana Department of Justice's Office of Consumer Protection says a recent data breach of Equifax, one of the financial industry's three top credit reporting agencies, has put the personal information of over 143,000 million Americans, and 368,000 Montanans at risk.
Equifax, one of the three major credit reporting agencies, was hacked in June and July of 2017 and millions of people's credit information was compromised. T
In spite of all our technological advances nearly 20 percent of all credit reports have some sort of error. Identity theft has reached epidemic proportions.