Don't know how many of you have heard about this yet, but with all the Hurricane news it seems to have been buried beneath the headlines. Equifax had an enormous data breach. They think 143 million people were affected. They stole huge amounts of data including names, SS #, addresses, dates of birth, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, answers to security questions, etc, etc. It's really bad. Equifax set up a website to check if you were at risk and with information on how to protect yourself. https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/potential-impact/
There's probably a lot more we all need to do to watch out for identity theft. I've been using credit karma for years to monitor my reports. At one time I had a identity theft alert on my credit report, but I might call the three bureaus and put a freeze on my stuff for awhile. I don't need credit for anything these days anyway (although I was thinking about refinancing my house, that might need to just wait).
Here an article about the breach: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/business/equifax-cyberattack.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fron-lieber&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&re gion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&cont entPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
There's probably a lot more we all need to do to watch out for identity theft. I've been using credit karma for years to monitor my reports. At one time I had a identity theft alert on my credit report, but I might call the three bureaus and put a freeze on my stuff for awhile. I don't need credit for anything these days anyway (although I was thinking about refinancing my house, that might need to just wait).
Here an article about the breach: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/business/equifax-cyberattack.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fron-lieber&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&re gion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&cont entPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
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