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: MN

Complaint narrative:
My personal financial data was breached and an untimely notification was given to me ( it had been exposed for several months ) by Equifax. I am now at greater risk of identity theft / fraud as a result of negligence on Equifax 's part.

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: DC

Complaint narrative:
I use Equifax, as well as XXXX and XXXX, to periodically check my credit report. In the last few days, improper IT security measures at Equifax led to their systems being " hacked '' and 143 million US customers ' information being leaked. This includes social security numbers, and poses an increased risk of identity theft. This happened in the first week of XXXX 2017.
I have placed a 90-day Fraud Alert on my credit report, however, I believe this hack was the result of insufficient and inadequate cybersecurity processes used by Equifax. If companies continue to neglect their cybersecurity, and continue to under-invest in what is an increasingly important and critical part of a company 's ( and democracy 's! ) infrastructure, then we will have increasing and more dangerous hacks.

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 security breach 2017. It was indicated that I was impacted by this breach of Equifax data and my PII was exposed.

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: IN

Complaint narrative:
I am among the people affected by the Equifax security breach. It is unacceptable that Equifax handled data this important with so little security around it, and now I have to worry about 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: MI

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. 

Going forward Equifax should be required to monitor every account and notify victims if any fraud occurs. Credit fraud protection should be mandatory for every account, not an option for us to have deal with. 

This should be rectified firstly by making credit freezing free and refunding everyone who paid for it following this data breach. Requiring a police report is absurd when they clearly know if you were affected.

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: FL

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. 
Going forward equifax should be required to monitor every account and notify victims if any fraud occurs. Credit fraud protection should be mandatory for every account, not an option for us to have deal with. 
This should be rectified firstly by making credit freezing free and refunding everyone who paid for it following this data breach. Requiring a police report is absurd when they clearly know if you were affected.

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 has mishandled my information, did n't notify me ( I found out via social media and had to go to their poorly made response site to check for myself ), and now has cost me several hours, some money ( to freeze my credit with 4 bureaus and XXXX XXXX ) and will continue soaking my  time and money to deal with paying for and unfreezing reports as necessary in the future. 

This is an undue burden from a company I have never chosen to do business with - they are a vendor of my vendors/creditors. 

Please take prompt and decisive action to ensure I am compensated for their negligence and that something like this does not occur again.

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: IL

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: MA

Complaint narrative:
Equifax has not taken proper precautions to protect my information ; as a result, all my sensitive information such as date of birth, SSN, etc. are now public information and I may soon be a victim of identity theft and other credit fraud problems.
Equifax could have at least hash the data instead of raw storage, but they carelessly have exposed the information of 150 million Americans ; this is serious neglect on their part.
Equifax has been quiet about this breach for nearly a month, this is seriously horrible. I received no notification about this breach to properly protect myself.

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:
My personal information, including all of my credit history was handled improperly and leaked from Equifax placing me a great risk for identity theft. Equifax proposed solution is to sign me up for their own service, of which the problem originated. Their service TOS limits the ability for legal action, so I decline their offer.

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:
Possible breach of privacy regarding sensitive personal information.

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 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 XXXX news. 
Going forward Equifax should be required to monitor every account and notify victims if any fraud occurs. Credit fraud protection should be mandatory for every account, not an option for us to have deal with. I will have to spend valuable personal time securing my identity because Equifax did not secure my personal information. 
This should be rectified firstly by making credit freezing free and refunding everyone who paid for it following this data breach. Requiring a police report is absurd when they clearly know if you were affected.

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: CO

Complaint narrative:
" Equifax Inc. said its systems were struck by a cyberattack that may have affected about 143 million U.S. customers of the credit reporting agency ... Some XXXX and XXXX residents were also affected. '' Equifax indicates that my personal data was impacted by the breach that occurred around XX/XX/XXXX, but that customers were not notified until XXXX XXXX. 

Equifax has mishandled the data and the response to the breach allowing my personal credit score, identity, digital identity and financial future to be at risk.

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 a credit reporting company's investigation into an existing problem — Was not notified of investigation status or results
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: MA

Complaint narrative:
Regarding the Equifax credit breach of XXXX. 

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. 

Going forward Equifax should be required to monitor every account and notify victims if any fraud occurs. Credit fraud protection should be mandatory for every account, not an option for us to have deal with. 

This should be rectified firstly by making credit freezing free and refunding everyone who paid for it following this data breach. Requiring a police report is absurd when they clearly know if you were affected.

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 's data breach supposedly included my data which would easily allow someone to steal my identity and attempt to open credit lines in my name. Equifax 's handling of the situation thus far has been terrible, including trying to get people to sign up for a free monitoring service which included a clause attempting to force people to wave their rights to file a lawsuit against them ( I did not sign up for this service ). Also concerning is the news that higher ups at Equifax used insider trading info to sell stock before making knowledge of the breach public.

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: OK

Complaint narrative:
Equifax did not protect my very personal information and allowed that information to be dispensed via a data breach. I will be forced to deal with this for years to come.

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 — Other personal consumer report
Issue: Identity theft protection or other monitoring services — Problem with product or service terms changing
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: VA

Complaint narrative:
Equifax mishandled my information which has led to a breach that puts myself and a bunch of others at risk. I am extremely frustrated with how equifax 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 by social media. 
Going forward equifax should be required to monitor every account and notify victims if any fraud occurs. Credit fraud protection should be mandatory for every account, not an option for us to have deal with. 
This should be rectified firstly by making credit freezing free and refunding everyone who paid for it following this data breach. Requiring a police report is absurd when they clearly know if you were affected.

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:
It appears that my information is impacted in the security breach from Equifax. I checked Equifax 's site after their recent security breach to seen if I was impacted. In addition, I received an email from XXXX XXXX XXXX on XXXX/XXXX/XXXX saying that my account was locked for multiple attempts to sign in. I have not accessed that account in over XXXX years. I would like to file a complaint against Equifax and hold them responsible for any negative impact to my credit or finiancial state. I am contacting the credit bureaus to place a fraud alert once their sites are available ( sites are currently down due to high traffic with 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: PA

Complaint narrative:
Equifax mishandled my information which has led to a breach that put myself, my family, and millions of others at potential risk. Further, Equifax has failed to professionally handle the reporting of this breach. Very little was done to notify the public for nearly a month after the breach was detected. I was never the recipient of an email, letter, or phone call notifying me that my personal information was stolen, and instead found out 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: NY

Complaint narrative:
On XXXX/XXXX/XXXX I read about the Equifax data breach. When I went to their reporting website, I learned that my information had been grossly compromised. 

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: WY

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 on the news. Especially when this is a company that I did not choose to do business with. They should be held to higher standards.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Mortgage — Conventional home mortgage
Issue: Struggling to pay mortgage — 
Company: Fay Servicing, LLC
State: NY

Complaint narrative:
I am please begin for help after these banks have vacillated so much that I have incurred tons of fees on top of my mortgage. Not only have I incurred extra expense but I have provided various times loan modification package to no success. I need to maintain my home for I have been a single parent for many years. My XXXX daughters and my grandchildren live with me. They contribute towards the home expenses. 

This home has giving me problems from the moment I purchased my home in XXXX.. I was given an adjustable mortgage with no explanation. The only explanation I received was that If I did not close the deal I will lose my down payment. I had absolutely no knowledge as to how this program worked. As a single parent all I wanted was a safe home for my girls for XXXX of them was XXXX coming from school. However, it was quite strange to me that my attorney at the time was discussing how unfair this program was and how I could not cancel the closing at the time for I had would lost my down payment. I realized after investigating that this origination was and is what they call PREDATORY LENDING. I do understand that predatory lending is a practice that imposes unfair or abusive loans terms for a borrower. It is also a practice that convinces borrower to accept unfair terms trough deceptive, unscrupulous actions. 
Please understand that I had originally defaulted do to loss of my employment. This was do to circumstances beyond my control.. I am now employed full time and my XXXX daughters also are contributing to the home. I just provided a week in a half ago another package. The sale day for my home is XXXX XXXX. Please I need to keep my home. .I have hired an attorney and I understand that predatory lending is a serious matter. 
Your quick response will be appreciated.

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: CO

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. 
Going forward equifax should be required to monitor every account and notify victims if any fraud occurs. Credit fraud protection should be mandatory for every account, not an option for us to have deal with. 
This should be rectified firstly by making credit freezing free and refunding everyone who paid for it following this data breach. Requiring a police report is absurd when they clearly know if you were affected. 

Also, I 'm currently unable to request a fraud alert on all three companies. 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: WA

Complaint narrative:
Equifax did not properly protect my day at and had a security breach where my information, including social security number, was disclosed without my consent. This resulted in improper disclosure of my credit reporting bureau information. 

I have contacted equifax but they do not have remediation or way to resolve this. They have offered free credit monitoring but this is insufficient recourse with risk of my identit being stolen and hardship with issues downstream

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-09 00:00:00
Product: Debt collection — Credit card debt
Issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed — Debt was paid
Company: CITIBANK, N.A.
State: PA

Complaint narrative:
I am a card holder and have been one for some time. I have never experienced a problem until this month when one of your practices, obviously designed to deceive customers and trick them into late payments for which you receive additional fee benefits, caught me too.
The due date remains constant but cycle dates change which misrepresents when obligations are due and credited. My due date is the 6th. I made it on the 8th and you credited it to the month prior to the 6th and since I thought my payment was made I tendered no additional payments until I received a call notifying me my payment for XXXX was applied as an extra payment to a former cycle making me late. 

The customer service rep was nice and required me to make a double payment immediately. 

You should not be allowed to arbitrarily apply payments to enhance your fee income. I also believe the double payment was arbitrary, unnecessary and saddled me with an additional amount due, which I did, but it I believe it is overkill. 

I have had this care for a long time and have a balance now because I am doing some home improvements. I plan on paying it off in the next couple of months and will likely close out this relationship because of this unethical and possibly illegal practice. 

I will be sending this complaint to the Office of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the hope that it will open an investigation and possibly to force you to return to fair credit practices. I also wonder how many other consumers have suffered because of this practice. 


Sincerely, XXXX XXXX XXXX Cc : Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Company public response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation