By now, you’ve heard about the massive hack that revealed nearly 3 billion records.
The records contain names, dates of birth, addresses, and phone numbers on a wide swath of the population.
cybersecurity firm Pentester have compiled the database and made it searchable in seconds
Check now: Was your SSN exposed in huge data leak?
Freezing your credit is free and won’t affect your score
That will put a roadblock between someone trying to open an account in your name. The freezing and unfreezing process can be done online
@ecksmc i did just see an unexpected credit report recently too. Know what I will be doing tonight.
@ecksmc Yep it's great, until you forget because you did it a while ago. Then you run square into the issue when you go to sign the finance papers and pick up the car you just bought. You then scramble around on your phone trying to thaw it across the different agencies. Meanwhile the sales rep is giving you the side-eye.
@MakerWerks that's why reminders and notes with alerts/ notifications were invented to mind us to do something
right? : 😜
@ecksmc I have only had to do it like 4 times in the last 20 years, and I always set an expiration period, so it refreezes automatically.
@ecksmc damn. Thanks
@ecksmc Whaddya know? My data was leaked, but it’s wrong. Looks like my efforts to poison the well have somehow paid off.
@ecksmc
Thanks for this public service! I’ve been hacked up and down and will try the phone method of freezing my accounts, since it is guaranteed I will forget all the passwords if I set up three more accounts online.
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@ecksmc I looked up my info on this stie and found I was on the list. What really suprised me is that they had every address I have lived at for the last 40 years. We evn had our addressed changed at one point to make it easier for Emergency services to find people living in Rural areas - they had both addresses. Old phone numbers I have long since forgotten. scary stuff. (I had a full page of listings) Contacted all the US credit agencies and froze my credit accounts. - I hope others check too.
Enter your name, state, and year of birth here, and the search will instantly look for your info in the billions of records leaked online in this massive data breach. The search is free.
what to do if you find your SSN has been exposed?
Ryan Montgomery, founder of Pentester, says you should freeze your credit reports
There are links at the bottom of the search results for Equifax, TransUnion and Experian.