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Signed up for Equifax to freeze my credit, password can not be longer than 20 characters (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by nokturne213@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Not only does the credit bureau max out their password length, you have a small list of available non-alphanumeric characters you can use, and no spaces. Also you cannot used a plused email address, and it had an issue with my self hosted email alias, forcing me to use my gmail address.

Both Experian and transunion had no password length limitations, nor did they require my username be my email address.

Update: I have been unable to log into my account for the last 3 days now. Every time I try I get a page saying to call customer service. After a total of 2 hours on hold I finally found the issue, you cannot connect to Equifax using a VPN. In addition there is no option for 2FA (not even email or sms) and they will hang up on you if you push the issue of their security being lax. Their reasoning for lax security and no vpn usage is "well all of our other customers are okay with this".

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[–] mihnt@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

So according to those rules, the password 6666666699999999Ya?! would work?

Or does the consecutive characters thing break the numbers? Or is that just numbers in general?

Not confusing at all or anything...

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

I think 12345678901234aB+ would work though. If I am able to log in (I currently have to call customer service to be able to log in) I will try both of these passwords and see if either is accepted.