TransUnion offers free identity theft protection for a year after N4ughtySec attack

[Jan]

How bank customers can protect themselves after hackers leak TransUnion data

Consumer credit bureau TransUnion has offered customers affected by a data breach free access to its TrueIdentity product for a year.

"TrueIdentity gives people the information and tools to detect identity-related threats and, if need be, a way to get help to recover from them," TransUnion stated.

 

[now05ster]

Oh please.

 

[supersunbird]

How bank customers can protect themselves after hackers leak TransUnion data

Consumer credit bureau TransUnion has offered customers affected by a data breach free access to its TrueIdentity product for a year.

"TrueIdentity gives people the information and tools to detect identity-related threats and, if need be, a way to get help to recover from them," TransUnion stated.

TU, you meant to say a decade, right?

 

[RonSwanson]

TransUnion lost our personal data.
TransUnion now wants us to give additional personal data to TrueIdentity TransUnion, to delegate the responsibility to us of ensuring that the TransUnion data compromised in the breach is not going to be used for nefarious purposes.
Free of charge nogal. But only for a year, because we all know that syndicates don't use data from breaches older than one year.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Hmmmm my knee jerk reaction to this is "Get fscked Transunion"

We must use your services to detect identity theft, when your shyte security is why we're possibly in this fsckup in the first place? Yeah no.

 

[grump_grouch]

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

got the email earlier today,
trying to save face with this joke,

we lost your data, BUT we can protect you for a year...

 

[TheChamp]

got the email earlier today,
trying to save face with this joke,

we lost your data, BUT we can protect you for a year...

Haven't received anything, with my luck I was certain I would be amongst those who are affected, maybe it's still coming.

 

[Cactus]

I read TrashUnion accidentally and only saw it the second time as TransUnion. Need to make an optometrist appointment

 

[rh1]

How does this protects me? The email they sent did not indicate how?

 

[OhYeah84]

A bit too f*cking late isn't it? What's going to happen here...zip! Nothing! Nada! THey should be fined into bankruptcy but that won't happen will it?

 

[ToxicBunny]

How does this protects me? The email they sent did not indicate how?

Basically you give them more info about you, and then when they lose that as well to another "password" issue, they can then sell you more services...

Rinse and Repeat.

 

[Kosmik]

Be very careful, these types like to give away for a year but then bill on annual thereafter. They should offer the protection for free for a much longer period. They lost the data and its not really their main line of business anyway. Stupid is as stupid does.

 

[neoprema]

I'm thinking of cancelling any products with them, not taking out more lol.
Altho its very much a case of closing the barn door once the horse, hay, tractor and pigs have bolted.

 

[TheChamp]

How does this protects me? The email they sent did not indicate how?

They send you alerts when credit enquiries are done on your profile, you can then take action by calling the companies and stopping the fraud in its early stages.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Be very careful, these types like to give away for a year but then bill on annual thereafter. They should offer the protection for free for a much longer period. They lost the data and its not really their main line of business anyway. Stupid is as stupid does.

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if their little "giveaway" still requires your payment details with automatic renewal at the end of the year...

I still want to know which client account was used to breach their systems... Both Transunion and that client need to be fined big crown and be forced to pay for identity theft issues related to this breach for a good long while to come.

 

[Nephew_]

Agree with most above.
I thought I was reading a joke. The exact people who allowed our data to be leaked are now wanting to make money of us. GTFO

 

[OhYeah84]

Agree with most above.
I thought I was reading a joke. The exact people who allowed our data to be leaked are now wanting to make money of us. GTFO

They should be prosecuted in terms of POPIA.

 

[lkswan747]

What happens if my email address and postal address have changed? How will TU get in touch with me if I was impacted by the leak? Do I just wait for some ID thief to contact me!

 

[PaulGherkin]

Before I left SA I struggled with these clowns.
They're worse than dealing with TELKOM.
I never got what I wanted. I was trying to get my credit report (not that it matters anymore).
They kept saying "your documents are not clear"
The last comms I had with them was I sent them PDFs of certified copies of ID etc.. etc..
Never heard anything since.