Equifax is trying to slither out of their obligations (re: data breach settlement)

[ecstatic]

More hoops and deadlines. I just randomly noticed this email from them. It's legit:

According to our records, you filed a claim for alternative compensation of up to $125 in connection with the Equifax data breach settlement and certified on the claim form that you had some form of credit monitoring or protection in place and will continue to have the credit monitoring in place for a minimum of six months from the date of your claim filing.
You must either verify or amend your claim by October 15, 2019.

If you do not, your claim for alternative compensation will be denied.
• To verify your claim for alternative compensation, you must provide the name of your credit monitoring service that you had in place when you filed your claim.
- OR -
• You can amend your claim to request free credit monitoring instead of alternative compensation.
The easiest way to verify or amend your claim is by visiting the official Settlement Website here.

So even if you already filled out the claim for the $125, you're going to have to go back and tell them, again, what you want to do.

[mcar]

1. I got that too

The breach happened 2 years ago and I was away - running from yet another hurricane. I'm supposed to remember all this?

[caraher]

2. The tricky bit is the credit monitoring service

Most people were told they'd get $125, but that was never what the settlement said. The $125 was only available to those who already had credit monitoring. So when I filed, I didn't pick the cash settlement option, I picked the credit monitoring.