Data Breach: 2.9 Billion Social Security Numbers at risk

Documented? Or undocumented?

 

The question doesn't make sense. The number here is twice the population of China. Do you think the United States has twice the population of China?

 

Makes perfect sense. Live down here in the dirty south and see all the undocumented “citizens” that border hop. They buy stolen id numbers to get things here. Every hispanic family has at least one illegal living with them and many have a family or more. You see travel trailers sided up to houses or other garage like looking buildings being built to get around codes to house them. With govment giving out more money per child like candy to women so more children per household is permitted. So yes i believe we have more then china.
All you have to do is get out and drive these days to see it. You can be out in the middle of BFE and still find heavy traffic. Tell me were all these people are coming from?

 

Well I guess it took about 4 hours but I was able to

order a copy of my DAC
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Get my credit reports
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Lock my social security #
myE-Verify

And freeze my credit at the 3 credit agencies. You have to make accounts at all three and there is a lot of info about your credit so you might skip getting your credit reports and just do this one first.
How to place or lift a security freeze on your credit report | USAGov

It took a while just verifying them the right websites but they are. Always look for the s in https (means secure or a lock picture before the web address before putting any info into a website. Youll need your SS# and an email and a phone and a laptop/tablet. And some patience.

A password manager, if you dont have one, is probably the best thing for protecting your online accounts. I use a paid one at $10 a year. There are free ones too. They can take a bit to get used to using so maybe make the first ones you enter not super important like medical accounts or whatever and make notes on paper until you see hoe it works. You can make some really random and long passwords and store them you just need to remember or write down one really strong password and the rest are encrypted. You can google search popular password managers. Everything else was free.

If you get targeted by a knowledgeable hacker they will probably be able to get you anyway but this prevents you from being swept up in large scale operations where they are looking for the low hanging fruit.

If you dont do anything else make a really strong password for your email and dont use that password for anything else. And dont reuse passwords for anything important like online banking and shopping and stuff like that.

Luck in battle lol

 

I believe the culprit is National Public Data dot com. And I think said culprit is a scumbag data seller.
They sell people's personal information for money. Well, the culprit got hacked and the hacker dumped 2.9 billion accounts on the "dark web".
My Identity Theft company notified me Tuesday that my ss# is out there. And I have been very careful all my life with my ID. I don't even have any social media.

 

I would be extremely careful putting such delicate info into a website that's not a .gov. You're basically creating another security breach by giving your info away to strangers.