I ignored the link and i logged into my chase account and they said it was the at&t breach, which has been reported in the news recently Call each credit bureau and make sure your credit is frozen or locked if you are affected They can explain the difference (if this is what you want to do, of course.) I got an email from discover credit card (i have a discover card and they do free monitoring) saying “we found your ssn on a dark web site” The email said to put a fraud alert on my experian credit file and also review my credit report
How would my info get onto the dark web Ssns use to be usable for a quick buck (like signing up for a credit card) but the requirements have become more stringent over the years No one approves anything with just a social You would need to be specifically targeted for someone to take advantage of your social security number. I got an alert from discover saying that my social security has been found on the dark web Is that a scare tactic
I could then hear the receptionist speaking to the insurance company on the phone in the lobby repeating everything loud enough for everyone to hear Here's the harsh reality of 2024 No need to mess with telegram bots or crypto Two cybersecurity firms launch separate websites that can tell you if your personal information, including social security number, was exposed in the national public data breach. Lawsuit claims hackers accessed billions of records, including social security numbers, by breaching background check company. The information breached may have included social security numbers, names, email addresses, phone numbers and mailing addresses, national public data states on its website.
In july 2023, an online group who went by the same pseudonym, “computer niggy exploitation,” leaked more than 7 million social security numbers by hacking the university of minnesota’s admissions records since 1989, in a similar attempt to compare students’ racial demographics to their test scores. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. My ssn was leaked due to security issues at my old college so i froze my credit out of caution With that being said, i think there's a lower risk of it happening now It used to be common for job applications and medical offices to ask for your ssn, but that is not the case anymore due to security risks. Billion of records may have been affected by the recent data breach
