Lending Tree is not offering consumers credit monitoring, but rather reffering them to annualcreditreport.com
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Lending Practices
Can a tree actually "lend" money? How does it collect and wouldn't that be a prevese form of slavery since the homes are made of wood?
Lending Practices
Similar to "Loan Sharks" there is a flaw in our ecomomic policy that allows non-humans to deal in the world of financial products. However "Loan Sharks" are not actually sharks but rather crustacians. Congress should debate this as the whole story is fishy to me.
LENDING TREE IS LIABLE FOR CUSTOMER'S INFO.
LENDING TREE NEEDS TO GET SLAPPED WITH A HUGE LAW SUIT.
LENDING TREE COMPROMISED CUSTOMERS
PERSONAL DATA AND SHOULD CONTACT THOSE EFFECTED AND BUY THEM A ID THEFT PROTECTION.
CASE LAW:NYC LOST EMPLOYEE'S DATA
VETERANS ADMID: LOST VETERANS DATA
BOTH ENTITIES PURCHASED ID THEFY POLICY'S FOR EFFECTED.
Lending Tree should have had the right products right from the s
There is nothing worse than being hacked by your own employees - when dealing with money and people personal data and life they should have protected themselves well enough even before starting their business... employee monitoring tools like SpectorSoft are here for that.
LendingTree should be sued!
Had LendingTree been using the Trusted Computing Group's (TCG) approach to safeguarding their IT infrastructure this could not have happened. Everybody needs strong, hardware based authentication and NAC infrastructure eliminating the "lying endpoint" element. Time for everybody to get on board and turn the TPM on!
This is corporate espionage
This represents good old fashioned corporate espionage. Different than the idenity theft that is so common today. I have written more about this on my blog here.