Consumer credit reporting giant TransUnion warns it suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of over 4.4 million people in the United States. According to a filing submitted to the Office of the Maine AG, the breach occurred on July 28, 2025, and was discovered two days later.
Paul Bischoff, Consumer Privacy Advocate at Comparitech had this comment:
“For context, the TransUnion breach compromised 4.4 million people. The 2017 Equifax breach compromised 147 million. It’s not as big, but it’s just as serious for those 4.4 million people. TransUnion does more than just generate credit reports. Other businesses that suffer data breaches frequently enlist TransUnion to provide credit monitoring and identity theft protection to breach victims. This breach could dissuade victims of other breaches from enrolling in those protective services.”
Roger Grimes, Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4 had this to say:
“Another data breach? “Only” involving single millions of digits? It’s almost a non-event. Data breaches involving hundreds of millions of records barely make the news anymore. How worried can you be about one “little” data breach when the information revealed to the hackers has likely been stolen many times? My only problem is why the breach was confirmed in late July and not reported to consumers until late August? Four weeks to publicly report, while likely legal, seems like a lot of time to let involved compromised users go around blindly without knowing about the additional risk, whether big or small. I’ve seen this lately…data breaches that must be reported publicly, taking a month or many months before they are publicly reported to those who are impacted. In today’s instant online world is seems more and more unacceptable.”
When the company that helps to protect people from getting taken advantage of after a breach gets breached, we’re all in deep trouble. These companies need to ensure that everything they do is beyond reproach or consumers will stop trusting them.
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TransUnion Gets Hit By A Data Breach
Consumer credit reporting giant TransUnion warns it suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of over 4.4 million people in the United States. According to a filing submitted to the Office of the Maine AG, the breach occurred on July 28, 2025, and was discovered two days later.
Paul Bischoff, Consumer Privacy Advocate at Comparitech had this comment:
“For context, the TransUnion breach compromised 4.4 million people. The 2017 Equifax breach compromised 147 million. It’s not as big, but it’s just as serious for those 4.4 million people. TransUnion does more than just generate credit reports. Other businesses that suffer data breaches frequently enlist TransUnion to provide credit monitoring and identity theft protection to breach victims. This breach could dissuade victims of other breaches from enrolling in those protective services.”
Roger Grimes, Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4 had this to say:
“Another data breach? “Only” involving single millions of digits? It’s almost a non-event. Data breaches involving hundreds of millions of records barely make the news anymore. How worried can you be about one “little” data breach when the information revealed to the hackers has likely been stolen many times? My only problem is why the breach was confirmed in late July and not reported to consumers until late August? Four weeks to publicly report, while likely legal, seems like a lot of time to let involved compromised users go around blindly without knowing about the additional risk, whether big or small. I’ve seen this lately…data breaches that must be reported publicly, taking a month or many months before they are publicly reported to those who are impacted. In today’s instant online world is seems more and more unacceptable.”
When the company that helps to protect people from getting taken advantage of after a breach gets breached, we’re all in deep trouble. These companies need to ensure that everything they do is beyond reproach or consumers will stop trusting them.
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