General Announcements

Contents include:

• New model: VantageScore 5.0
• General notice: UAT Environment Usage Policy and Best Practices

Contents include: 

• General system update: Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs)
• General system enhancement: Invalid Permissible Purpose Use Type Codes from Direct Customers

Contents include:

• Implementation details for TruValidate^™ GLBA Synthetic Fraud Score v2

Contents include:

• Retirement of FICO® Score 98
• Update: Risk Based Pricing Rule (alternative data solutions)

Contents include:

• Multifactor authentication coming soon to the Client Technical Services Portal website and the Data Exchange Gateway Profile Manager
     

Notes: 

• The announcement published on October 3, 2025 contained incorrect values in the AO01 segment’s service status field for TruValidate Tradeline Washing Attributes and TruValidate Inquiry Washing Attributes. There was also an error in the score range for TruValidate Credit Washing Default Score. The version published on 11/14/2025 reflects corrected information.
• The original announcement, published on October 1, 2025, contained incorrect product codes for TruValidate Tradeline Washing Attributes and TruValidate Inquiry Washing Attributes. The versions updated on October 3, 2025 and November 14, 2025 reflect the corrected information.

Contents include:

• New score model: TruValidate Credit Washing Default Score
• New attribute model: TruValidate Tradeline Washing Attributes
• New attribute model: TruValidate Inquiry Washing Attributes

Contents include:

• New score model: TruVision Trended Personal Risk Score 2.0
• Retirement of TruValidate Identity Alerts add-on service
• Update: Risk-based Pricing Rule

Contents include:

• New score model: TruVision™ Trended New Account Score 3.0
• Update: Factor code 026 updated for TransUnion models

Contents include:

• Retirement of VantageScore® 1.0 and VantageScore® 2.0

Contents include:

• Update to general notice: New input requirements for resellers who use a single enablement code
  
  Note: An article on this topic first appeared in Technical General Announcement #215 published on June 3, 2024. We are republishing it to include the updated deadline for the new input data.    

This General Announcement was originally published on May 1, 2025.

• Updated on July 1, 2025, to include additional valid values that can be returned with the TruValidate Identity Risk Model. 
• Updated on September 2, 2025, to include additional clarfying details for TruValidate Identity Risk Model and TruValidate Standard Identity Risk.
• Updated on March 27, 2026 to add a note saying that the change described in the article "General sytem update: Valid use type codes to be required on input" was never deployed. It has now been superseded by the update published in General Announcement #231.

Contents include:

• General system update: Valid use type codes to be required on input
• New offering: TruValidate Identity Verification 3.0 (IDV 3.0)
  • New score model for IDV 3.0: TruValidate Identity Risk Model
  • New add-on service for IDV 3.0: TruValidate Standard Identity Risk

When this article was originally published on March 25, 2025 it stated that TransUnion would update the TUNA SSL certificate on April 14, 2025. This date has been changed to April 17, 2025.

Originally published March 25, 2025

Contents include:

• General system notice: Annual update to the TUNA SSL certificate

This General Announcement was originally published on January 10, 2025, and was updated on June 30, 2025, to reflect a minor revision to the text description of Fraud Alert 2010.

Contents include:

• Service change: Update to Fraud Alert 2010

Contents include:

• General notice: Update to industry codes (KOB codes)
• Update: Risk-based Pricing Rule
• Retirement of VantageScore 1.0 and 2.0

When this announcement was originally published on August 6, 2024, it stated that Fraud Alert 5503 would be triggered only when the SSN was issued within the last 20 years. The article has been updated to state that the alert will be triggered when the SSN was issued within the last 10 or 20 years. If you wish to receive the alert when the SSN was issued within the last 20 years, you must upgrade to TUXML version 2.45 or higher.

Originally published: August 6, 2024

Contents include:

• Service enhancement: Update to Fraud Alert 5503

Contents include:

• New standalone service: TruVision™ Consumer-Permissioned Attributes

Contents include:

• General notice: New email addresses for some TransUnion systems

When this announcement was originally published on June 3, 2024, the "General notice: Updates to two fraud alerts" article stated that Fraud Alert 5503 was obsolete. The article has been updated to state that the alert is temporarily unavailable while TransUnion works to enhance the logic.

Originally published June 3, 2024

Contents include:

• General notice: Updates to two fraud alerts
• General notice: New input requirements for resellers who use a single enablement code

Contents include:

• Standalone service enhancement: TruVision™ Employment Credit Report

Contents include:

• Update: Risk-based Pricing Rule

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• Action required: netaccess.transunion.com is migrating behind Cloudflare

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• Add-on service enhancement and product name update: TruAudience® Prefill Household

Contents include:

• Update: Risk-based Pricing Rule

When this article was originally published, it stated that updated product names would be available in the print image in production on September 24, 2023. That date has been changed to October 1, 2023.

Originally published June 20, 2023.

Contents include:

• Update: Rebranded product names affect online print image output

The date that the TruVision™ Account Reporting Review enhancement will be available in TUXML has been changed from July 5, 2023 to July 27, 2023.

Originally published June 1, 2023.

Contents include:

• Standalone service enhancement: TruVision Account Reporting Review

Contents include:

• Notice: TUNA connection updates
• Update: Rebranded product names affect online print image output

Contents include:

• TransUnion web application firewall migration

The rebranded product names affecting online print output is delayed. Dates will be communicated in a future General Announcement. 

Originally published April 3, 2023.

Contents include:

• Notice: TUNA connection updates
• Update: TransUnion rebrands its products into seven product lines
• Update: Rebranded product names affect online print image output
• Service enhancement: New default configuration for TruValidate^TM Fraud Alerts and TruValidate Identity Verification solutions

Contents include:

• Notice: TUNA connection updates

Contents include:

• Notice: TUNA connection updates

Contents include:

• Notice: TUNA connection updates
• Reminder: Installing digital certificates for TUNA and TUAL users

Contents include:

• Update: Risk-based Pricing Rule
• Notice: TUNA connection updates
• Reminder: Installing digital certificates for TUNA and TUAL users
• Coming soon: New TransUnion Data Exchange Gateway

Contents include:

• Notice: TUNA connection updates
• Reminder: Installing digital certificates for TUNA and TUAL users
• Coming soon: New TransUnion Data Exchange Gateway

Contents include:

• Notice: Changes to search status in OFAC Screen solution

Contents include:

• Reminder: Installing digital certificates for TUNA and TUAL users
• Update: Vendor input information
• Coming soon: New TransUnion Data Exchange Gateway
• Update: Risk-based Pricing Rule

Contents include:

• New standalone service: Consumer Property Insights
• New add-on service: Prefill Property Subject
• New add-on service: Prefill Property Owner
• New add-on service: TruValidate^TM SSN Verification

Contents include:

• New add-on service: Prefill Vehicle Commercial

Contents include:

• New solution: CreditVision^® Magnitude Attributes

Contents include:

• New model: FICO^® Resilience Index 2