Protection After Equifax Hack - All Americans Should Follow These Steps Immediately

More than 143 million Americans have had their personal information exposed in the Equifax hack.

The most prudent action is to freeze your files. These are the sites to do this.

https://www.freeze.equifax.com/Freeze/jsp/SFF_PersonalIDInfo.jsp

https://www.experian.com/freeze/center.html

https://www.transunion.com/credit-freeze/place-credit-freeze

The FTC also suggests

Verifying your info using the annual credit report.

Filing taxes early.