Half of U.S. adults in a new survey said they have not looked at their credit report or credit score since a huge data breach last year…at credit scoring company Equifax compromised the personal information of at least 145.5 million U.S. consumers. CreditCards.com’s latest study also found that 18 percent of the 1,164 adults surveyed have never checked their credit report or credit score. “If the announcement of something that significant won’t get people to act, then it raises the question of what will,” said Matt Schulz, senior industry analyst at CreditCards.com. “I think people just feel that they have more pressing things to do.” About 3 in 10 survey respondents who had heard “a lot” about the breach still hadn’t checked their credit in the past six months.
ORIGINAL SOURCE: CNBC
