{"id":129634,"date":"2022-11-10T23:10:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T23:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/11\/10\/transunion-data-breach-exposes-consumers-financial-information?utm_medium=rss"},"modified":"2022-11-10T23:10:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T23:10:22","slug":"transunion-data-breach-exposes-consumers-financial-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/10\/transunion-data-breach-exposes-consumers-financial-information\/","title":{"rendered":"TransUnion data breach exposes consumers&#8217; financial information"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-12\" id=\"article-hero\" aria-labelledby=\"hero-cap\" role=\"figure\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/transunion-data-breach-exposes-consumers-financial-information.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/transunion-data-breach-exposes-consumers-financial-information.jpg\" alt> <\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p> <em> AppleInsider may earn an affiliate commission on purchases made through links on our site. <\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"col-sm-12 article-lead\">TransUnion has sent letters to consumers alerting them to a recent data breach that compromised their personal and financial information.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>On Monday, TransUnion reported a data breach with the Massachusetts Attorney General. It currently isn&#8217;t known how many people were affected in the breach.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/transunion-llc-confirms-recent-data-6828319\/\">According to<\/a> <em>JDSupra<\/em>, TransUnion said that the breach resulted in names, Social Security numbers, financial account numbers and driver&#8217;s license numbers being compromised. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>TransUnion has sent letters to all affected parties with instructions to help protect themselves from identity theft and fraud. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>TransUnion is one of the largest consumer credit reporting agencies, collating information from more than a billion users globally and 200 million files in the United States alone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AppleInsider may earn an affiliate commission on purchases made through links on our site. TransUnion has sent letters to consumers alerting them to a recent data breach that compromised their personal and financial information. On Monday, TransUnion reported a data breach with the Massachusetts Attorney General. It currently isn&#8217;t known how many people were affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}