Tennessee Consumers Should Be Wary of Hurricane-Related Price Gouging
September 16, 2018
Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance
Nashville, TN – Ahead of the anticipated landfall of Hurricane Florence this weekend, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III and Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak are urging consumers to be alert to potential price gouging that could occur.
Tennessee Attorney General Slatery, TDCI Commissioner McPeak Warn Consumers of Price Gouging.
Tennessee Consumer Affairs Do’s & Don’ts in Wake of Equifax Data Breach
September 25, 2017
Nashville, TN – With over 3 million Tennesseans’ sensitive information exposed in a data breach at the credit reporting firm Equifax, the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance’s (TDCI) Consumer Affairs Division wants to help vulnerable consumers plan a course of action to protect themselves from scammers aiming to mine their data through bogus websites and phishing calls.
According to Equifax, the breach lasted from mid-May through July and exposed the data of over 143 million Americans.
