financial account protection: What You Need to Know About Credit Freezes When Buying a Home
- 01/07/19 03:10 PM
What You Need to Know About Credit FreezesWhen Buying a Home Currently, I'm working with clients that had chosen ... prior to their mortgage application ... to place a Credit Freeze on their credit file and credit accounts ... They had decided to take that action after the discovery of 2017's major Equifax Credit Breach. In that breach, hackers gained access to consumer's Social Security numbers, names, addresses, and birth dates. In a number of cases, these hackers also stole driver's license numbers, as well. And in a much smaller number (but still sizeable), other varying identity info was also stolen during that breach. Pretty scary stuff when you consider the huge … (28 comments)
ASSUME the worst and proactively take measures to protect yourself, your finances, and your credit history/credit scores. Don't wait for confirmation yea or nay.
With this recent breach of security at Equifax being so large (an estimated 143 million people are affected), chances are good that you will be receiving notification soon, as that number represents a whopping 50+% of the population.
The information/data stolen during this breach include: Birth … (45 comments)
financial account protection: Have YOU Been Hacked? Online Security Issues Raised Again
- 12/06/13 02:18 AM
Have YOU Been Hacked? Online Security Issues Raised Again Once again, the news is filled with reports of a widespread hacking of social media sites, usernames, and passwords, etc. having taken place over the last month or so (Oct., Nov., 2013). And once again, the matter of internet security is brought to the forefront of our minds ... or it should be ... It's been reported that around 2 MILLION Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, ADP, Yahoo accounts (and others) have been "hacked" and compromised via infected computers carrying malware. The particular form of malware causing the latest issues … (13 comments)
What You Need to Know About Credit FreezesWhen Buying a Home Currently, I'm working with clients that had chosen ... prior to their mortgage application ... to place a Credit Freeze on their credit file and credit accounts ...
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