vivekkopthsd/cfpb-consumer-complaints huggingface dataset:
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: MO

Complaint narrative:
In XXXX of XXXX, Equifax allowed my personal information ( name, social security number, address, etc. ) to be stolen. I 'm now at risk for identity theft. I 've not yet been contacted by Equifax. I 've asked for a temporary fraud alert through XXXX.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: WI

Complaint narrative:
To whom it may concern : Equifax mishandled my personal information as well as 143 million others. To make matters worse, Equifax did not attempt to contact me about the security breach ; rather, I found out from the news that I should check my impact status myself.
I just found out from their website ( https : //www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/potential-impact/ ) that " Based on the information provided, we [ Equifax ] believe that your personal information may have been impacted by this incident. '' This is unacceptable.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: WI

Complaint narrative:
Equifax mishandled my personal information including name, social security number, address, birthdate, driver 's license number, and possibly more. They allowed a data breach to occur in XXXX 2017, and they confirmed I could be affected on their website, www.equifaxsecurity2017.com. They have put me at risk of identity theft/fraud due to negligent security protocols in handling consumer information. They are further attempting to capitalize on the situation by signing injured parties they are responsible for up for " trial periods '' of their ID protection services. The negligent loss of personal information of nearly 200 million consumers is unconscionably unethical, and it is further unreasonable that they are not directly notifying every single person affected by this incident.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: MI

Complaint narrative:
I had my personal information stolen during the Equifax security breach.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: WA

Complaint narrative:
I am among those who had data stolen in the Equifax hack. My name, address, credit, and social security are becoming public data as I type this, and I and many others will now have to take strong preventative measures to protect myself from identity theft. This is what happens when you let for-profit companies handle sensitive government data. Disgusting.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: IL

Complaint narrative:
On XXXX XXXX, XXXX, I learned that I was among the millions who had their data compromised by the Equifax hack. The massive leak was discovered on XXXX XXXX, but reporting took over a month. 

Equifax has offered a protection service, but included an arbitration clause, which I am unwilling to agree to at this time. 

I have ( through another reporting service ) placed a 90 day fraud alert on my file, in case the worst happens. 

I understand that Equifax was the victim of this hack, but their sole job is to keep consumer information safe and secure.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: CA

Complaint narrative:
XXXX XXXX, XXXX, found out Equifax a victim of cyber hack. 
XXXX XXXX, XXXX, found out I am a victim of stolen information. 
Companies with possession of confidential information of millions of Americans should have better protected their assets.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: NJ

Complaint narrative:
Equifax was negligent and allowed the leak of my personal information ( such as birthday, SSN, address, and more ) to an unknown amount of people. They waited weeks before alerting me that my info may have been leaked, and they did not take the necessary precautionary measures to prevent something like this from happening.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Problem with fraud alerts or security freezes — 
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: CA

Complaint narrative:
I am writing to expose the misconduct and unexplainable behaviors of Equifax. Both my wife and I had are personal information compromised over a month ago and are just learning about this security breach in early XXXX. This is unacceptable and has put our livelihood and safety at stake. I sincerely hope strong actions are taken against this reprehensible organization and its officers. 

Regards, XXXX XXXX

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: MN

Complaint narrative:
Equifax indicated to me today ( XX/XX/2017 ) that my personal data may have been breached in a cyber attack against them.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: AZ

Complaint narrative:
" Equifax mishandled my information which has led to a breach that puts myself and millions of others at potential risk. I am extremely disappointed with how equifax has handled reporting this breach. Very little was done to notify the public for nearly a month after the breach was detected. I received no email, letter, or phone call and instead had to discover it via social media.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: TX

Complaint narrative:
Equifax reports that my information was part of a security breach. I 've had some sketchy emails that are coming through my spam filter lately asking for some personal information could be used for identity theft.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: NC

Complaint narrative:
Equifax had been hacked and I, being a customer who was trying to avoid my identity from being stolen, had my information stolen.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: AZ

Complaint narrative:
Equifax has recently announced that they have been affected by a cyber security breach that has allowed the personal information of millions of Americans fall into the wrong hands. According to a tool offered by Equifax to check who has been affected, it is likely that my own information was also included in the breach, meaning someone almost certainly has my personal information due to irresponsible safeguarding of said info by Equifax. This breach occurred only one month after my credit history began. My new credit history has no negative marks on it, and has a credit score of around XXXX, which makes my very concerned that my personal info will be considered " valuable '' by potential identity thieves ; I feel as though my information is more susceptible to being used fraudulently. I am also concerned that whoever may have access to my information might not use it for a long period of time in order to avoid the 90 day fraud alert, as well as to wait until I, and many others, have let our guard down and may not be monitoring our credit reports as closely as we will be immediately after the breach. 

Equifax is entrusted with our most sensitive personal information, and allowing a situation to occur where the information of millions is given out to unknown, unauthorized persons is disappointing, and very frightening.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: CA

Complaint narrative:
My personal information was released due to the improper release of information from Equifax servers. That information included my name, Social Security number, birth date, addresses, drivers license number, and might include credit card numbers. I have requested Equifax put a fraud alert on my account.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: NY

Complaint narrative:
On XXXX XXXX, XXXX, I learned that Equifax had improperly allowed unauthorized parties to access my personal information, including my social security number. This incident happened in XXXX, but the public was not informed until today.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: MA

Complaint narrative:
Equifax mishandled my personal information including name, social security number, address, birthdate, driver 's license number, and possibly more. They allowed a data breach to occur in XXXX 2017, and they confirmed I could be affected on their website, www.equifaxsecurity2017.com. They have put myself and millions of others at risk of identity theft/fraud due to negligent security protocols in handling consumer information. They are further attempting to capitalize on the situation by signing injured parties they are responsible for up for " trial periods '' of their ID protection services. The negligent loss of personal information of nearly 200 million consumers is unconscionably unethical, and it is further unreasonable that they are not directly notifying every single person affected by this incident.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: NM

Complaint narrative:
Equifax Data Breach- After checking with Equifax XXXX it states that my identity may have been compromised with the hacking incident. I would like reassurance and protection with my social security information and credit so that I do not become a victim of identity theft.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: TN

Complaint narrative:
Equifax breach, their website claims my wife and I were effected.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Credit monitoring or identity theft protection services — Problem canceling credit monitoring or identify theft protection service
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: CA

Complaint narrative:
Thursday XXXX XXXX I logged on the XXXX website to see If my personal data had been involved in the hacker security breach. Clicking the " Check Potential Impact '' button automatically enrolled me in TrustedID XXXX. I was not given any option to decline this service and I did not agree to this. I do not want this service.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: MI

Complaint narrative:
Equifax has failed to protect my most personal information from being hacked. I feel both angry and helpless that my name, SSN, birthdate, etc., is now probably in an Excel file for sale on the internet.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: PA

Complaint narrative:
I am one of the 143 million people potentially impacted by the hacking/data loss at Equifax. As of this time, I have no idea what this will mean for me, but at the very least it will require an amount of additional time and personal effort. At worst, I will be much more likely to be a victim of fraud in the future. 

Until such time as a new and more secure system is developed for managing personal information and credit, I and the millions of other victims of this hack must live with its consequences, with virtually no measure available to us to have prevented it. This is the real crime -- that the consumer is rendered powerless to protect him or herself without incurring substantial costs. The remedies Equifax has offered are insufficient given the magnitude of the breach and potential consequences to its unwilling customers.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: CA

Complaint narrative:
On XXXX XXXX, 2017, Equifax Inc.announced a cyber security incident potentially impacting approximately 143 million U.S. consumers. Criminals exploited a U.S. website application vulnerability to gain access to certain files. Based on the companys investigation, the unauthorized access occurred from XXXX through XXXX XXXX. 

According to www.equifaxsecurity2017.com, my credit report information may have been compromised : " Based on the information provided, we believe that your personal information may have been impacted by this incident. ''

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: CA

Complaint narrative:
Equifax states that my information has been compromised/stolen

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: CA

Complaint narrative:
Personal information was leaked by Equifax, including Name, DOB, Address, SSN, etc. some time before XXXX XXXX, 2017 due to a security breach caused by gross negligence with regards to security practices surrounding their website. 

No action was taken by Equifax, who actively refused to publicly acknowledge this breach, for over five weeks. 

Once knowledge of this leak became public, they attempted to offer a single year of credit reporting services- services they happen to profit from- which also included a binding arbitration clause protecting themselves from civil liability to their own incompetence. This offer was rejected out of hand as insultingly inadequate.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: PA

Complaint narrative:
Equifax did not properly secure my protected personal information from intrusion, such as through appropriate patching, 2-factor authentication at the point of service, segmentation of data, etc. As such, it appears my full name, Social Security numbers, birth date, addresses, and possibly driver license number is cross-matched to each other and in the hands of criminals who can use this data to breach any number of accounts in perpetuity such as my banking and financial data, medical data, legal complaints, political data, and any other number of sensitive accounts. 

Further, I am unable to secure these accounts because they ask for the very personal information that is breached in order to verify my identity and approve a change. 

Equifax is currently offering a limited credit monitoring service, which does n't even activate immediately. Even this had to be sought out by those who see the news reports, follow the news links to the Equifax page, which in turn link to a shady third-party website asking for 2/3 of one 's social security number plus last name and a waiver of all class action recourse in order to discover if one is among the breached accounts, only changed to waive class action recourse from the third party site if it too is breached with the sensitive data it is querying once the news of this spread. This is insufficient to the need created by their negligent protection of my information, which I did not give them myself, but which they curated as their business from other businesses.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: GA

Complaint narrative:
Equifax mishandled my personal information including Name, Social Security #, Address, Birthdate, etc. resulting in a data breach in XXXX 2017 that they confirmed I was potentially affected by per their " Potential Impact '' site www.equifaxsecurity2017.com. 

They have put myself and millions of others at risk of identity theft/fraud due to negligent security protocols in handling consumer information. They are further attempting to capitalize on the situation by signing injured parties THEY are responsible for up for " trial periods '' of their ID protection services. 

They are simultaneously defrauding these injured parties with hidden terms of service that waive their right to sue the company in what is clearly a situation of criminal negligence/fraudulent behavior as indicated by the three Equifax executives that dumped stock immediately prior to the data breach announcement.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: WA

Complaint narrative:
Equifax provided inadequate protection of my personal data including social security number, name, address, and birthday. As a result, this information was stolen. Equifax delayed notifying me in writing ( still has n't ). Their incompetence has greatly increased my risk of identity theft.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: CA

Complaint narrative:
On X/X/2017, I went on www.equifaxsecurity2017.com. I was notified that I may been impacted by the recent hacking incident to Equifax. I am aware that hackers might have my Social Security number, my birth date, my address, and my drivers license numbers.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: NY

Complaint narrative:
Equifax, who was given all of mine and every other American 's personal information, had improper security measures in place which allowed the release of over 100,000,000 people 's personal information. Information that can ruin people 's lives. It 's not even an opt-in service, but half of the entire country got screwed over anyway

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation