PSA Recent Data Breach

[B1GEast]

There was a recent dump of info on the web from a data breach. Make sure you monitor your credit.

2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed

Stolen data was then put up for sale on the dark web

www.tomsguide.com

 

[storrsroars]

Best part of this is there's some goof in Missouri who has a version of my decades old email (Google forwards me anything using a dot or dash or underscore in my addy as it doesn't recognize those). Anyway, I get alerts that my email has been exposed - and it's the guy in MO and his name and SSN.

 

[husky429]

For those who don't know: you can freeze your credit. If you aren't getting a loan in the near future, there's not much reason to have it unfrozen.

 

[phillionaire]

There’s something pretty ironic about a company that specializes in fraud prevention getting hacked leading to tons of identity theft. Probably should be shut down if they can’t even handle protecting their own data.