More than 1 billion people had their data compromised in breaches through June.
I almost threw away the mailing I got in mid-July from MNGI Digestive Health. I couldn’t remember ever patronizing the place. Must be more junk mail.
Tracing identity theft to any particular data breach is difficult, said James Lee, chief operating officer of the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit group based in California. “But we do know that data breach information is the fuel for most identity theft crimes.” Companies and governments often struggle for months to determine the nature and extent of a data breach. It took MNGI 11 months. So, your stolen data could be available to fraudsters for a long time before you even know about it.
I felt relatively reassured, but experts say I should still be wary. They recommend that data breach targets freeze their credit.It’s free. And fraudsters can’t access credit profiles that are frozen.Other tips from experts include changing account passwords, vigilantly monitoring your financial accounts for signs of suspicious activity and signing up for a credit monitoring service.
So he said he called Consulting Radiologists. A representative told him to call the vendor that had been hired to manage the breach. A representative for the vendor told him there was no evidence his Social Security number had been compromised. “Most of us have data out on the dark web,” Bruemmer said. “And if your data is on the dark web, there is nothing you can do to get it off the dark web.”Even if your misappropriated data isn’t on the dark web, you’re not in the clear. Cybercriminals are increasingly using the traditional web, Lee said. Data breaches are “so pervasive, and there is so much information available, that they don’t need to hide.
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