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If you recently signed up to receive cash compensation from the Equifax breach settlement, you must do this now to validate your claim.

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I have just moved and wish to update my address with Equifax. The other credit agencies allowed me to do this online, but Equifax say I have to mail them a photocopy of my driver's license and SS card. I have never updated my address with them in the past, but they already have all my previous addresses, so do I need to mail them my details too - or will they just get updated automagically?

A quick Google says you can change your address in the myEquifax Dispute Center, but if I do that and choose to dispute my current address (my previous one), I'm given the following options for "Why are you disputing your current address" - "I have never lived at this address", "This address belongs to another person with a similar name", "I believe I am a victim of fraud or identity theft and this address is not mine" - none of which fit my pretty common "I have moved".
It seems that I'm missing something here - that the only way to update my address with a major credit agency is by mail? - and if I do so, I'm also not quite sure if I'll receive confirmation when/ if it is done. Am/ will I?

Investments in new technologies help Equifax protect sensitive data?

More than 147 million people's credit data were exposed during Equifax's 2017 breach. Wednesday is the deadline to file a claim.

Equifax, like most large U.S. companies, failed to encrypt the databases that store some of the most sensitive details of people's lives.

Laura Heaps, 36, was denied a mortgage after her advisor said she had a default on her credit file. However, rating agency Equifax had mistakenly put her twin sister's historic debt on her report.