https://consumerist.com/2017/09/11/dont-take-equifax-up-on-its-credit-monitoring-offer/ >As anyone able to tear themselves away from hurricane bulletins last week knows, credit reporting bureau Equifax shared the news that the personal information of 143 million Americans was compromised earlier this year. Yet while plenty of companies, including Equifax itself, are happy to give or sell you credit monitoring services after such a massive breach, that doesn’t mean you should take them up on it. >The Equifax breach isn’t the largest in in history; that dubious honor goes to Yahoo, which had the login details of more than 1 billion accounts stolen on its watch.