Every Credit Card Reporting Company is upgrading their IT Security after Equifax

There were questions from Chase Bank about an applying for a credit card that someone was attempting to open in his name. Mifflin, who exists in San Antonio, says he called the bank and was told the identity thieves have my Social Security number. He set up fraud warnings with the three major credit recording companies. But he says the deceitful attempts to open credit cards remained “multiple times a week, multiple times a day.”

The Equifax security breach the biggest known theft of Social Security numbers in history has legislators, prosecutors and identity theft victims like Mifflin angry with the organization. The revelations have put a limelight on the industry, raising some significant and deeper questions and sparking calls for tough new jurisdictions to reshape the credit reporting landscape.

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