Freeze your credit, there’s no downside unless you’re doing a lot of hard credit checks (which would be abnormal): https://www.usa.gov/credit-freeze
It’s free, easy, and protects you. It’s a no-brainer.
Really disappointing that this is now the second day in a row that I’m sharing this link, for the Comcast leak yesterday, and now MoneyGram. When will these orgs be held responsible with effective punishments?
formation on
Whole of the south East of London exposed
tuttut97 on
At this point the Social Security Administration should just start over and issue new numbers that are illegal to be used for any other purposes.
ktmln91 on
Good thing that our social security numbers were already stolen
JaxMed on
Leaks will continue so long as the only recourse is a “whoopsie daisy, here’s a year of identity theft protection and credit monitoring, now go away”.
Companies are not punished for losing your data and so they will continue doing so
ooofest on
Fine, massive fine.
Every time this occurs, the penalty should be at least a base amount of fine per piece of personal data exposed x the number of unique data entries. Start with 10K per data element and fine these businesses to the extreme – money transfers, banks, telecoms, insurers, etc.
Sweet_Sweet_6972 on
Reminder: Check if you’re affected. Freeze credit reports. Change passwords.
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Freeze your credit, there’s no downside unless you’re doing a lot of hard credit checks (which would be abnormal): https://www.usa.gov/credit-freeze
It’s free, easy, and protects you. It’s a no-brainer.
Really disappointing that this is now the second day in a row that I’m sharing this link, for the Comcast leak yesterday, and now MoneyGram. When will these orgs be held responsible with effective punishments?
Whole of the south East of London exposed
At this point the Social Security Administration should just start over and issue new numbers that are illegal to be used for any other purposes.
Good thing that our social security numbers were already stolen
Leaks will continue so long as the only recourse is a “whoopsie daisy, here’s a year of identity theft protection and credit monitoring, now go away”.
Companies are not punished for losing your data and so they will continue doing so
Fine, massive fine.
Every time this occurs, the penalty should be at least a base amount of fine per piece of personal data exposed x the number of unique data entries. Start with 10K per data element and fine these businesses to the extreme – money transfers, banks, telecoms, insurers, etc.
Reminder: Check if you’re affected. Freeze credit reports. Change passwords.
HAAS can’t catch a break.