Category Archives: The Work Number

Intuit to Share Payroll Data from 1.4M Small Businesses With Equifax

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Financial services giant Intuit this week informed 1.4 million small businesses using its QuickBooks Online Payroll and Intuit Online Payroll products that their payroll information will be shared with big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax starting later this year unless customers opt out by the end of this month.

Intuit says the change is tied to an “exciting” and “free” new service that will let millions of small business employees get easy access to employment and income verification services when they wish to apply for a loan or line of credit. Continue reading Intuit to Share Payroll Data from 1.4M Small Businesses With Equifax→

Fintech Startup Offers $500 for Payroll Passwords

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How much is your payroll data worth? Probably a lot more than you think. One financial startup that’s targeting the gig worker market is offering up to $500 to anyone willing to hand over the payroll account username and password given to them by their employer, plus a regular payment for each month afterwards in which those credentials still work. Continue reading Fintech Startup Offers $500 for Payroll Passwords→

How to Opt Out of Equifax Revealing Your Salary History

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A KrebsOnSecurity series on how easy big-three credit bureau Equifax makes it to get detailed salary history data on tens of millions of Americans apparently inspired a deeper dive on the subject by Fast Company, which examined how this Equifax division has been one of the company’s best investments. In this post, I’ll show you how to opt out of yet another Equifax service that makes money at the expense of your privacy. Continue reading How to Opt Out of Equifax Revealing Your Salary History→

Equifax Reopens Salary Lookup Service

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Equifax has re-opened a Web site that lets anyone look up the salary history of a large portion of the American workforce using little more than a person’s Social Security number and their date of birth. The big-three credit bureau took the site down just hours after I wrote about it on Oct. 8, and began restoring the site eight days later saying it had added unspecified “security enhancements.” Continue reading Equifax Reopens Salary Lookup Service→

Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

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In May, KrebsOnSecurity broke a story about lax security at a payroll division of big-three credit bureau Equifax that let identity thieves access personal and financial data on an unknown number of Americans. Incredibly, this same division makes it simple to access detailed salary and employment history on a large portion of Americans using little more than someone’s Social Security number and date of birth — both data elements that were stolen in the recent breach at Equifax. Continue reading Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History→