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 ...

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The federal government has fined TransUnion a total of $23 million — including some $14 million to be paid to consumers — over illegal rental background checks and security locks and freezes on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau accused the credit bureau, one of three major credit reporting agencies, of “lying to consumers.” By Ann Carrns Freezing your credit report has long been ...

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 ...

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 ...