{"id":9537,"date":"2018-08-15T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=9537"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:48","slug":"equifax-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/15\/equifax-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Equifax data breach: Consumers knew but took little action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8779\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8779\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8779\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x.jpg\" alt=\"Lock sitting on credit cards resting on a computer\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x.jpg 400w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x-125x83.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/burst.shopify.com\/photos\/computer-security-lock-and-payment\">(Nicole De Khors\/Stock Up\/CC0)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>When the Equifax data breach impacting nearly 147 million people occurred just over a year ago <a href=\"https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/equifax-data-breach-consumers-heard-about-it-but-took-little-action\/\">most consumers took little to no action to protect themselves<\/a> despite the risk of identity theft, U-M researchers found. In comprehensive interviews with 24 consumers, a team of researchers at the School of Information led by <strong>Yixin Zou<\/strong> and <strong>Florian Schaub<\/strong> found that few knew if they were impacted by the breach, although they had heard about it and understood the risks of identity theft, and even fewer took protective measures, such as freezing their credit reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expected that people might have issues with protecting themselves effectively but the degree of inaction after the data breach was definitely unexpected,\u201d said Zou, a doctoral student at the school. \u201cWhile a majority of our participants (19 out of 24) knew a big data breach had occurred at one of the big three credit bureaus and demonstrated detailed awareness of identity theft risks, more than half of them did not translate this awareness into any protective measures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Equifax data breach impacting nearly 147 million people occurred just over a year ago most consumers took little to no action to protect themselves despite the risk of identity theft, U-M researchers found. In comprehensive interviews with 24 consumers, a team of researchers at the School of Information led by Yixin Zou and Florian Schaub found\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/15\/equifax-data-breach\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,27],"tags":[488,43,122],"class_list":["post-9537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-safe-computing","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data","tag-hacking"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x.jpg",400,267,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x.jpg",400,267,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x.jpg",400,267,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x.jpg",400,267,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x.jpg",400,267,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x.jpg",400,267,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x.jpg",400,267,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/computer-security-lock-and-payment_373x_2x.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"When the Equifax data breach impacting nearly 147 million people occurred just over a year ago most consumers took little to no action to protect themselves despite the risk of identity theft, U-M researchers found. 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