Half of america. Social security numbers, birth dates, home addresses, phone numbers, even credit card numbers all in the hands of criminals. Ive heard from working families in massachusetts and all across the country since then. The equifax is a nightmare. At best it is a giant hassle. Time on hold with credit reporting agencies, fees for this service and that service, confusion about whats been stolen and what to do about it. At worst, it could be ruinous, a lifetime of responsible spending and borrowing wiped out by Identity Theft and fraud. People are outraged and rightly so. Bad enough that equifax was so sloppy that they let hackers into their system, but the companys response has been even worse. First, equifax hid the information about the breach for 40 days 40 days. Equifax gave criminals a 40day head start to use the information they had stolen while the rest of us were left in the dark. And then, when equifax fine lily decided to disclose the breach, they didnt call or send
Mainly cloudy, a bit damp on the new jersey side of the delaware. As we roll through the day, its warm, 79 degrees by northern, 83 by 3 00 p. M. The high of 84 on the late side of the day around 3 30 or 4 before we dip back to 82. Its pleasant this afternoon and great evening to head out on the town and check out a High School Football game as i know thousands of you will do. Well be back with the evening call and karen will set you up for the weekend. Reporter all right, dave. You can he see this in our camera. A jackknifed tractortrailer on the vine heading toward the schuylkill. Look at the back up on the vine westbound. A big backup this morning. Roads wet, but in other areas we had such a good soaking we had flooding problems on route 44 and route 45. In the overnight hours they were shut down. I talked to police they said they were up all night putting cones on local roads in Gloucester County because we had so many flooded roads. In that area we had an accident west deptford at