Credit care

Six months have passed since the Equifax data breach exposed the sensitive personal information of about 146 million Americans. A recent CreditCards.com survey of 1,164 U.S. adults provides insight into American attitude and behavior toward credit since then. Here are highlights:

• Only 32 percent of respondents said they had checked their credit scores/reports in the past six months; 50 percent had not.

• Thirty-six percent of those 30 and younger reported never checking their credit scores/reports, compared to 12 percent of Gen-Xers and 12 percent of baby boomers.

• One in five respondents (7 percent) said having their cellphone stolen would be worse than having personal data stolen.

• Though 51 percent of respondents who said they heard “a lot” about the breach checked their credit scores/reports in the past six months, 29 percent of those who claimed to know a lot about it chose not to check.