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Equifax hack inspires Colorado clampdown on credit reports
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Colorado lawmakers began laying the bricks of a firewall for consumers who might be victims of identity theft as a result of such breaches as the Equifax hack last year. They started with children and at-risk adults. Most children don’t have credit histories, and often their clean credit is used in “family fraud,” by someone who…
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Colorado lawmakers look to protect personal information under 3 new bills
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Finding out your identity and your personal information are under attack is a nightmare. And it’s one that Republican state Rep. Cole Wist of Centennial has experienced – twice. A couple of years ago, Wist found out someone was trying to file false tax returns using his Social Security number, and false returns using his…
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Williams to sponsor bill to protect consumers from credit reporting agencies
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UPDATED with comment from Rep. Williams on credit alternatives. More than 145 million Americans woke up on Sept. 8 to find that their personal data, including Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers had been stolen through a security breach at the credit reporting agency Equifax. Rep. Dave Williams…
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Gardner grills Equifax CEO about data breach in Senate committee
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Senator Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) questioned former Equifax CEO Richard Smith and Equifax interim-CEO Paulino do Rego Barros, Jr., about the company’s massive data breach at a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing. Equifax said in September that hackers breached a flaw in their system, stealing names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and driver’s…
