Consumer and Finances
After That Capital One Data Breach: Time to Get a Free Check of Your Credit Report
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If you needed yet another nudge to start keeping an eye on your credit report to protect against identity theft, Capital One has delivered it with its announcement that a data breach has exposed the personal information of 106 million of its credit card customers and credit card applicants in the U.St. and Canada. — Sheena Gressin is an attorney in the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Consumer and Business Education. This article is from the FTC Consumer Information blog. News of the Capital One breach comes just one week after the Federal Trade Commission announced that Equifax agreed to pay up to $700 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the FTC, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and 50 states and territories, stemming from the credit reporting giant’s 2017 data breach, which affected about 147 million people.