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• So your identity has been stolen? Again?

  Posted on September 30, 2024 at 02:45 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 21.40 • 2024-09-30

  ON SECURITY

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Not a day goes by that I don’t receive some sort of notification that my name, address, email address, social-security number, credit card, or — well, you get the idea — has been stolen.

  So what, if anything, should you do to ensure your identity is safe? Should you subscribe to a dark Web monitoring service? Sign up for credit monitoring, which is typically offered when such an event occurs?

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.40.0, 2024-09-30).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

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• Should you get a free credit report for any data breach?

  Posted on September 26, 2022 at 02:44 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  Samsung Electronics — the giant multinational that sells 28% of all the smartphones in the world, as well as many other consumer devices — has sent notices to some of its users that their personal information in Samsung’s database has been hacked.

  In a statement, the company says the hackers didn’t obtain users’ credit-card or debit-card numbers. But the intrusion did reveal some customers’ names, addresses, birthdates, and the Samsung products they’d registered. As a result, the corporation’s notices recommend that affected users obtain a copy of their credit report from major reporting agencies.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.39.0, 2022-09-26).

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