Son of a Fucking Bitch!!!
Again. AGAIN!!!!!
Received letter this morning from Health Equity Inc - a company we never heard of and certainly didn't give any personal info to.
"... unauthorized access ... HSA ... your personal information ... may include ... full name, address, telephone number, employee ID, employer, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, dependent information, payment card information."
I would like very much to return to an all cash system if nobody minds.
@BrazenlyLiberal I got one yesterday, same strange company with no history of me directly interacting with them, never heard of them at all ever. Eight pages of explanations and remedies. Creepy.
Turns out they manage HSA's, Cobra, and Lifestyle plans.
So it's your health care savings account.
Why tf is it always (almost) health care outfits? Hospitals, medical security (!!!) companies, etc.
You notice that letter is 8 pages of what YOU should drop everything and do, but not a word about what THEY apparently could be bothered to do to prevent it.
@BrazenlyLiberal I just learned that there's a fourth credit reporting agency, called Innovis. It wasn't mentioned in the data breech letter, but it was listed on a webpage for "Opt-Out Prescreen". I had a freeze with the other three but not this one. Going to do that now.
Thank you! I didn't know abut them either!
Full disclosure, we should be okay because we put a freeze on our credit reports. I'm pissed off in principle.
Everyone should consider freezing their credit. It won't stop you from using credit cards/lines of credit you already have. It will just prevent new accounts from opening with your info.
If you decide you want to get a new card, buy a car or house, etc, all you have to do is unfreeze it before you buy.
Seriously. This is ridiculous.