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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK >> Federal regulators fined credit-reporting agency TransUnion a total of $23 million for tenant screening and security freeze failures today. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — 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 ...

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 ...

A TransUnion cyberattack exposed over 4.4 million people's info. Credit-monitoring services can help you identify if your identity has been compromised.