Post #1426495
2026-03-18 03:46 UTC
@the_blackwell_ninja
What is the purpose of these credit agencies? Do other countries have them? An utter scam. I had my data stolen in the Equifax hack. If a credit company can't even stop a hack, they should be shut down. I believe TransUnion was hacked as well. I also have free monitoring from them. Sickening.
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@nyanbinary@infosec.exchange 2026-03-18 05:54
@lin11c regarding the first question: Yep... for Germany we got the Schufa - private company, but practially a monopolist run by banks etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schufa