With Lock & Alert, you can quickly lock or unlock your Equifax credit report online or via the mobile app. The mobile app also can utilize thumbprint and facial recognition verification. Credit report locks allow you to lock and unlock your Equifax credit report using identity verification techniques such as a username and password, Touch ID or FaceID technology.

Placing, lifting and removing a security freeze is free. At Equifax, you can manage your freeze online with your username and password after creating a myEquifax account. Security freezes (also known as credit freezes) are federally regulated and allow you to place, temporarily lift or permanently remove a freeze with a username and password.Unless you temporarily lift or permanently remove a freeze, or unlock your Equifax credit report, it can't be accessed to open new accounts (subject to certain exceptions). Both generally prevent access to your Equifax credit report to open new credit accounts. A lock and a freeze have the same impact on your Equifax credit report, but they aren't the same thing.

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