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- With the amount of personal information that lives online, it’s safest to just assume that your personal details have been stolen during a data breach, like last year’s massive Equifax hack.
- The best way to protect yourself is to monitor your own credit for changes or irregularities, in case anyone tries to fraudulently open an account in your name.
- Fortunately, monitoring your own credit is quick, easy, and free. Services like Credit Sesame will let you know as soon as something happens, so that you can catch fraud before it becomes a major problem.
When credit reporting agency Equifax announced a massive data breach last September, people began worrying about what that could mean for them. Since personal details, including names and social security numbers, of nearly 150 people had been stolen, nearly half of the United States was suddenly at increased risk of identity theft. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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