Beacon Score
  
When they're not being hacked and losing 145 million users' information, Equifax will generate their own type of credit score, called the Beacon Score, to provide insight or data to potential lenders regarding their customer's creditworthiness. Unique to Equifax, the score is subjected to some slightly different math to determine the borrower's ability to repay the proposed new debt.
Transunion and Experian have their own unique scores, which are dubbed the Empirica Score and FICO Score, respectively.
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