Under FCRA, no one can pull your credit without your autorization. Your situation could be an impremmissible credit pull under federal law-reg 1681-negligence. There are penalties associated with this-cash for you. May want to speak with an attorney who specializes in this law. If you have real damages associated with this, the better the case. Check myfaircredit.com
I have a federal case in the process of being filed. Mine was pulled during my divorce litigation and it will be filed as willful and not negligence. The cra should remove the inquiries and equifax acted quickly with the removal of the hard pull but experian is refusing. There will be problems for experian regarding this.
Good luck.....