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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: TransUnion
Current Parent Company: TransUnion
Penalty: $2,391,667
Year: 2016
Date: October 19, 2016
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax agreed to pay a total of $7.175 million to settle allegations they engaged in deceptive marketing activities by signing up customers to credit monitoring services they were unaware of, and also produced credit reports that failed to properly verify information and did not take into account Mississippi law. The announcement did not indicate how much each company would pay. Here we assume the total was divided equally among the three.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Mississippi Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Mississippi
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Illinois
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: miscellaneous services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: credit rating services
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