{"id":5962,"date":"2014-09-10T22:22:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T06:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=5962"},"modified":"2014-09-10T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T06:22:34","slug":"home-depot-offering-free-equifax-identity-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/home-depot-offering-free-equifax-identity-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Depot Offering Free Equifax Identity Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago the company Home Depot announced that there was a breach in its payment system.\u00a0 This means that anyone who used debit or credit card payments may be in potential risk of it being compromised.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost similar to the Target credit card breach story that happened not too long ago.\u00a0 What was interested I read was that part of Home Depot\u2019s reaction to this is that they are offering all potentially affected customers one free year of Equifax identity services for free.\u00a0 You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/homedepot.allclearid.com\/\">https:\/\/homedepot.allclearid.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This the first time I have personally seen something like this and it\u2019s not too bad of a way to try and rebuild consumer confidence I suppose.\u00a0 Funny enough, I actually did buy something from Home Depot during this time-frame.\u00a0 However, my friend really wanted his reward points so I allowed him to put the bill on his card instead.\u00a0 All is good though as I even let him know about this free offer.\u00a0 Don\u2019t forget to tell everyone you know who may be affected as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago the company Home Depot announced that there was a breach in its payment system.\u00a0 This means that anyone who used debit or credit card payments may be in potential risk of it being compromised.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost similar to the Target credit card breach story that happened not too long ago.\u00a0 What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[5153,5154,1506,5155,5152,683],"class_list":["post-5962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-credit-card-payments","tag-debit-payment","tag-equifax","tag-free-equifax-service","tag-home-depot","tag-identity-theft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/timemoney.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1ya","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5963,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962\/revisions\/5963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}