vivekkopthsd/cfpb-consumer-complaints huggingface dataset:
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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: KY

Complaint narrative:
Equifax was made aware of a data breach involving my data, as verified by the information on the equifax breach site that was created ( equafaxsecurit2017.com ). I identified myself as a victim of the data breach. Equifax did not notify me directly of this, and did not provide me with any opportunities to opt-out of the storage and collection of my PII and PHI during the time in which they collected and stored my PII and PHI. I did not ever give consent for this information to be stored on any equifax storage medium, including but not limited to servers, SANs, RAID arrays, virtual storage containers, hardcopy files, etc., and now equifax has allowed a security breach to compromise my personal information due to their negligence and lack of security.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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 had a security breach and gave out my financial records. Their execs sold off their stock before reporting it and should be jailed.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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 information, which puts me and other XXXX XXXX Americans at risk not only financially but also emotionally. It makes me very anxious to have found that I am listed as a potential victim according to their equifaxsecurity2017.com website, and would like a resolution.
As a company that handles sensitive personal information, they did not notify anyone quickly enough and admit that they will not notify everyone, while their top 3 executives XXXX XXXX, XXXX XXXX and XXXX XXXX sold their shares worth 1.8 million dollars 3 months prior to this issue was disclosed to the public  blinded by the quick profit!!!!!!

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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 2017 I learned that my personal information including my SSN may have been compromised by Equifax. This is absolutely ridiculous. They took 2 months to notify the public of this massive breach which affects half of Americans. They needt o be held accountable for their actions and inactions. They hold the most sensitive information for consumers and do not hold it securely or with integrity. They are only offering free credit monitoring for one year ( and only with opting out of a class action lawsuit ). Our SSNs and DOBs stay with us for over a year ... are we expected to continue paying for their mistake for the rest of our lives?

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Other personal consumer report
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: CA

Complaint narrative:
Released my personal information in security breach

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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: AK

Complaint narrative:
Equifax had a security breach and requires me to pay to freeze my credit, even though I was affected.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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: TN

Complaint narrative:
Equifax has been compromised and I, along with 143 million others, have had information stolen due to their incompetence. Now all of their services are down. On top of it all, they want us to use their subsidiary to protect our identity while simultaneously having us opt-out of the ability to bring a class action lawsuit to them. 

This is unacceptable.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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 was struck by a cyberattack so they did not have the security needed to protect my personal information which puts me and millions of other people at risk. I am listed as a potential victim according to their equifaxsecurity2017.com website, and would like a resolution.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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: ME

Complaint narrative:
On XXXX XXXX, 2017, Equifax discovered that criminals exploited a U.S. website application vulnerability to gain access to certain files. 
My information was part of this loss. 
Equifax did not take proper preventative measures to prevent the unauthorized release of my personal information.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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 was breached and leaked a staggering amount of personal data. 
" The breach occurred between mid-XX/XX/XXXX and XX/XX/XXXX,  Equifax said. The company said it discovered the hack on XXXX XXXX. '' according to XXXX XXXX XXXX They then proceeded to not inform anyone until 5 weeks later, which is 100 % unacceptable. An attacker could do a ton of damage in 5 weeks. And before informing their customers, several executives sold a significant amount of stock XXXX XXXX XXXX This clearly shows them worrying more about their own well being than the the well being of American consumers.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 00:00:00
Product: Payday loan, title loan, or personal loan — Installment loan
Issue: Charged fees or interest you didn't expect — 
Company: Lendmark Financial Services
State: MD

Complaint narrative:
Back in XXXX I applied for and received a loan from Lendmark Financial located in XXXX Maryland in the amount of {$6500.00}. As of today, XXXX, I am still owe over {$7000.00}. All of my payments that have been made are being applied to the interest only. I do not believe that is fair business practice to consumers and I believe that it is up to our elected officials to stop this unfair business practice and put a stop to lenders who out to only steal from hard-working consumers. It is really hard today with extremely high cost for just about everything. I have reached out to Lendmark to make a settlement offer but they refuse to accept a lower amount. I want to take them to court and start a class-action suit against them.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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:
Security Breach of personal information which puts my financial future at risk for the rest of my life. 
Equifax negligently provided my personal information to outside parties without my knowledge or consent and provided all my pertinent and personal information in such form and as complete as to ensure that I will have to deal with the results of their neglect and improper handling of my financial information and identifying information for the rest of my life. 
EQUIFAX has NOT provided proper notification of the security breach. 
EQUIFAX has suggested they will provide a 12 month monitoring service for my credit. 
The remedy suggested by EQUIFAX is INSUFFICIENT to  mitigate the considerable on-going life-long risk of damage to my personal finances, business opportunity and reputation. 
EQUIFAX MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO RETAIN ANY INFORMATION ABOUT ME OR MY FINANCES IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM AND MUST PURGE ALL INFORMATION ABOUT ME FROM THEIR SYSTEMS IN A WAY WHICH IS NOT RECOVERABLE AND SAFELY PREVENTS ANY FUTURE ACCESS BY EQUIFAX THEIR AGENTS OR EMPLOYEES IN PERPETUITY. 
Further, I should NOT experience any penalty or discrimination as a result of refusing to allow EQUIFAX to handle any information relating to me or my finances.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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 notified the U.S. public that it mishandled Personally Identifiable Information of all its U.S. customers ( including me ; I verified this at their emergency website ) by not investing into proper cybersecurity products, was hacked, and is pushing the burden of fixing the issue onto customers.
This is infuriating - in the U.S., Equifax collects information from you if you do as little as apply for a job, so there was no consent to the collection of my information and certainly no consent to the criminally negligent storage of this information without proper security.
While Equifax is offering free credit monitoring for the next year to all affected, to verify your eligibility to sign up for that monitoring, you must : ( 1 ) Wait several days, which opens the door to your credit becoming trashed through no fault of your own and requiring you to take steps to fix it, when literally every other U.S. customer pursues the same remedies ( 2 ) Consent to an arbitration provision that is legally coercive, unenforceable in many jurisdictions, and likely in violation of the Federal Arbitration Act, basically amounting to trusting the same company that was criminally negligent again

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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: CA

Complaint narrative:
Equifax 's security breach was not reported to potentially impacted people, like myself in a timely manner.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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:
The Equifax data breach onXX/XX/2017 has compromised my personal information. 

Per Equifax site regarding data breach : " 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 2017-09-08 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:
So I was notify the I may have been affected and my identity theft so I would like more information on this as soon as possible

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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:
According to https : //www.equifaxsecurity2017.comXXXX my personal information was mishandled in a recent data breach. I am worried about identity theft but unsure what I can do to protect myself.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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 issue involving 145 million people. Confirmed with Equifax that my information was compromised.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report — Personal information incorrect
Company: Experian Information Solutions Inc.
State: GA

Complaint narrative:
Attempted to remove old addresses and addresses where I never lived from my Experian credit report. I was told that several accounts were connected to accounts and they refuse to remove aforementioned items. The addresses are : XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX # XXXX XXXX, XXXX, XXXX XXXX XXXX, XXXX XXXX XXXX, XXXX XXXX XXXX, XXXX XXXX XXXX, XXXX XXXX XXXX, XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, XXXX XXXX XXXX

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 non-monetary relief
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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: NE

Complaint narrative:
I found out in the news ( X/X/2017 ), 2 months after the alleged security breach took place with Equifax, that 143 million Americans ' information might have been compromised. This included SSN, DOB, credit card info, and other personal identifying information. I checked the Equifax site and was told it was likely my information was exposed. 

I was not notified by the company, but instead had to go look for the information myself. 

The breach is inexcusable and places my identity and credit at risk. 

I have since tried to freeze my credit with Equifax, but found out that anyone with certain information ( ie SSN ) could unfreeze my credit with Equifax. This is beyond the pale of incompetence.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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 allowed my personal information ( name, SSN, address, driver 's license number ) to be released in a data breach.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 00:00:00
Product: Debt collection — Other debt
Issue: False statements or representation — Attempted to collect wrong amount
Company: Professional Credit Analysts of MN, Inc.
State: ME

Complaint narrative:
Received electronic notification from credit monitoring service of new derogatory entrants to my credit reports. In all, 11 accounts reported to my XXXX, 5 to XXXX, 5 to XXXX. The accounts are for {$100.00} a piece, all share the same account number with each individual entrant listed as Acct # XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, etc. 

No communications were mailed to my address. Upon calling the debt collector listed, was told I better pay all outstanding balances immediately before " we XXXX XXXX your credit score even more. '' My credit scores have gone down over 60 points across the board. This collector is entering false information into reports first, then using it as blackmail to prevent further credit damage. I have zero accounts for any of the amounts listed.

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
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Other personal consumer report
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: CO

Complaint narrative:
According to Equifax 's website, my personal information was affected in the latest data breach that occurred from mid-XXXX through XXXX 2017. This breach occurred as a result of Equifax 's failure to take a reasonable, prudent level of care to protect the information from theft. As a proximate result of Equifax 's failure to take proper care, my information and the information of approximately 143 million American consumers was stolen by unknown persons, and may be used to commit crimes and other harm against myself and/or others, either now or in the future. The potential harm that I face as a result of Equifax 's failure to take reasonable care ranges from simple theft and inconvenience, all the way up to total financial ruin.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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:
I was affected by the breach in information Equifax had in XX/XX/2017. They believe my information to be compromised, SSN, Address, DOB, everything. This is entirely unacceptable and I expect resolution. The entirety of my identity is now not safe and will require my constant monitoring.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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: AZ

Complaint narrative:
Equifax had knowledge of compromised data by XXXX XXXX 2017 and said nothing, leaving people unknowingly exposed for multiple months. Also had many difficulties putting a freeze on my report with them including being hung up on when I asked to repeat my PIN number for the freeze.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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: LA

Complaint narrative:
I am one of the at least 209,000 US customers whom had their personal information affected by the latest Equifax security breach. I was notified using their web tool on X/X/17. I 've since initiated a fraud alert for 90 days to all three credit score bureaus and have requested my credit reports via paper mail ( as their  web site tools are down ).

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report — Information belongs to someone else
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: IL

Complaint narrative:
Equifax did n't properly secure my sensitive information. It became vulnerable to a data breach and I was impacted.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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 — Investigation took more than 30 days
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: IL

Complaint narrative:
I 'm sure you 've received this well over 10,000 times but Equifax decided to either not invest in the proper security measures for 143 million Americans private information ( I am one of those ) or they were grossly negligent in protecting that information. 

After Equifax was hacked I found out my information could be in jeopardy from a thrid party news outlet and was NEVER notified by Equifax that my private information was potentially breached. I had to hunt down a link to their website and check manually with Equifax and their poorly engineered website for this crisis. 

After reading into this problem I 've learned the information was stolen well over 30 days ago and now thanks to my own due diligence I am now aware that my information has been potentially stolen. 

Equifax has failed to protect my personal information. Equifax has failed to give me proper notification of potential stolen information within a reasonable time frame. Equifax has failed to give a clear remedy for this entire situation. 

Are the credit bureaus too big too fail?

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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:
My personal information was compromised in the recent hack. I checked on X/X/17

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Credit monitoring or identity theft protection services — Didn't receive services that were advertised
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: FL

Complaint narrative:
Equifax were hacked and lost all my information and the information of hundreds of millions of other Americans and this is absolutely unacceptable.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-09-08 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: TX

Complaint narrative:
My information was impacted by the Equifax security breach per Equifax 's self service 'Was my data impacted tool '. This tool is online and can be found on their website.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation