Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A "For Rent" sign is displayed outside a building in Philadelphia, June 22, 2022. Federal regulators fined credit-reporting ...

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 ...

Late last month credit reporting giant TransUnion disclosed that hackers accessed a third-party application tied to its U.S. consumer support operations on July 28. The breach was discovered July 30 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Bureau and the ...

If you’re concerned about someone stealing your personal information and opening up credit accounts in your name, freezing ...

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 ...