RE: Oops: Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data

["Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>]

Equifax is one of the three credit report providers. Experian and
Transunion are the other two.

Equifax is the correct company to use for credit reports and for
monitoring...trust is another thing all together.

The question is? Does just using Equifax give you all the information? I
have always heard to get reports from all three companies. Sometimes
Equifax doesn't have some credit card or lean that Experian might
contain.

-Todd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org 
> [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Tom Van Vleck
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:54 PM
> To: FunSec [[List]]
> Subject: Re: [funsec] Oops: Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2006, at 7:49 PM, Fergie wrote:
> > Via C|Net News.
> > An external auditor lost a CD with information on thousands 
> of current 
> > and former McAfee employees, putting them at risk of identity fraud.
> >  ....
> > The disc contained personal details on all current U.S. and 
> Canadian 
> > McAfee workers hired prior to April 2005 and on about 6,000 former 
> > employees in the same region, MacDermott said. (The 
> security company 
> > currently has approximately 3,290 employees
> > worldwide.) The information wasn't encrypted and 
> potentially includes 
> > names, social security numbers and stock holdings in McAfee.
>
> Yup, I am a former McAfee employee, got the letter on Monday. 
>  They offer the customary two years of free Equifax Credit 
> Watch, all I have to do is give a lot of personal info to 
> Equifax.  Do I trust Equifax?
>
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