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pineapplelover ,

I tried freezing my credit but I think transunion and equifax wouldn’t let me create an account for some reason. Asking me to call them. Anybody else running into the same issue?

ohlaph ,

I did previously and had to wait until a weekday to talk to someone. It was a huge pain. Fuck those agencies.

cm0002 ,

Fuck those companies, they’d prefer that you thought of them as agencies because it makes them appear to be at least affiliated with the government.

They’re not, they are private companies through and through

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Happened to me, too. Just tried again a couple days later and it worked. Dunno why.

pineapplelover ,

Were you on vpn by any chance?

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Nope.

UselesslyBrisk ,

Are you proxying or using a VPN to access their site. I often see IP blocks, even if that proxy is a simple socks proxy to a VPS i own. Many VPS subnets are blocked/restricted wholesale, as are many of the big VPN endpoint ips.

pineapplelover ,

Yeah I use VPN. Maybe I should jump to random countries or maybe turn it off.

UselesslyBrisk ,

That will 100% cause it with the 3 larger creditors (where fraud targeting is likely one of the highest…)

return2ozma ,
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I know Ticketmaster just sent out millions of “sorry we got hacked, freeze your credit for free with this code” letters. Maybe they’re struggling to keep up with demand.

pineapple_pizza ,

Mine was for credit monitoring. You should be able to freeze your credit for free at any time

atrielienz ,

Yes. They’ll want to send you a letter with a passcode via the post office because of the breaches.

PenisDuckCuck9001 ,

Good god. Thats like, every person that has ever used a computer probably. Fuck.

C126 ,

2 billion social security numbers? What’s the population of the US?

fmstrat OP ,

More than US.

MIDItheKID ,

Is there a simple way to find out if your Information was in this leak, and what information it is? I use haveibeenpwned for leaks linked to my email address, but from I read in this article, it’s not linked to my email address.

So how do I found out if my data was leaked without paying for a credit monitoring service?

fmstrat OP ,

We got notified by email from the credit monitoring our credit card provides.

A_A ,
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the U.S. and other countries “around the world”

meaning, for those of us living on other planets, we are completely safe … such a relief ! /s

IllNess ,

It’s best to say around the world just so who ever is reading it doesn’t think it region specific.

For example, they could say “the U.S. and other countries in the western hemisphere.”

A_A ,
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How do you like : “worldwide (including self centered U.S.A.)” 🤣 ?

IllNess ,

The other way works better since National Public Data is based in Florida and because of the name of the company. If it said “International” instead of “National” the readers would assume it is international data.

Based on the location, name of the company, and the breach mentioning social security numbers, stating the US first is the most logical.

jaybone ,

This is why I don’t go to the National House of Pancakes.

werefreeatlast ,

Otherwise, how would the republicans get enough votes.

AWittyUsername ,

Is this why I got the latest scam email saying I need to pay $4k in bitcoin else a video of me wanking would be leaked.

SynopsisTantilize ,

Oh shit sorry. I must have accidentally sent that email to the wrong person. I meant to send that to my dad.

derpgon ,

How about you send it to me instead and I’ll pay you the 4k

AWittyUsername ,

Ok

Trainguyrom ,

Worth noting looks like this breach was first reported at the start of June

www.theregister.com/2024/06/03/usdod_data_dump/

fmstrat OP ,

There is a small silver lining, according to the VX team: “The database DOES NOT contain information from individuals who use data opt-out services. Every person who used some sort of data opt-out service was not present.” So, we guess this is a good lesson in opting out.

Wonder what the best opt-out service is.

mechoman444 ,

This explains why I’ve been getting so many Indian scam calls the last few days.

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