TransUnion lied to you. That’s the word from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB says in tens of thousands of cases consumers locked or froze their accounts, but Transunion took ...

And consumer advocates continue to recommend freezes despite recent revelations that TransUnion, one of the three major credit bureaus, botched “tens of thousands” of freeze requests over a period of ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Transunion lied to you. That’s the word from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB says in tens of thousands of cases, consumers locked or froze their accounts, but ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have reached two settlements totaling $23 million with consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion, stemming from ...

Credit freezes block many fraudulent applications but miss synthetic identity fraud, account takeovers and tax refund scams.

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal regulators fined credit-reporting agency TransUnion a total of $23 million for tenant screening and security freeze failures on Thursday. The Consumer Financial Protection ...

The credit reporting company TransUnion holds our intimate financial details. Until recently, its customer service hotline also left an opening for impostors to potentially take over our private ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Freezing your credit is one way to lower your risk of being scammed. What is a credit freeze and how do you do this? We asked ...

Make sure to freeze your credit on all three credit bureau sites. “In order to effectively freeze one’s credit, it is ...

Freezing your credit report has long been regarded as one of the best steps to take to make sure identity thieves cannot obtain loans or credit cards in your name. And consumer advocates continue to ...