https://medium.com/@message2america/the-equifax-security-breach-5aa1e3505e13 >How to Protect Yourself After 143 Million Accounts Were Hacked >On September 7th, Equifax — one of the three large credit monitoring agencies — reported that it had suffered a massive data breach by hackers. Worse, they reported that the hack had occurred five weeks previously, on July 29th. That data breach exposed credit information, social…