Equifax Could Be Selling Your Salary History. Here’s How To Protect It
The giant credit agency allows you to freeze or place an alert on your salary data, but it doesn’t publicize those options.
Equifax is made up of many credit reporting agencies. The most famous Equifax credit reporting agency that sells personal financial information is the one that recently suffered one of the most highly publicized and highly sensitive data breaches in history, impacting 145 million identities. The second largest Equifax credit reporting agency, Equifax Workforce Solutions, is the one that has 296 million employment records that represent, according to the company, “approximately one-third of the working population in the United States.”