A data breach involving billions of social security numbers has consumer advocates urgently sounding an alarm. If you haven't taken steps to protect yourself from identity theft yet, experts said you need to do so immediately.
A data breach involving billions of social security numbers has consumer advocates urgently sounding an alarm. If you haven't taken steps to protect yourself from identity theft yet, experts said you need to do so immediately.a hacking group claimed in April to have stolen personal records of nearly three billion people from National Public Data, which offers personal information to employers, staffing agencies, and others who do background checks.
Also, if you can, sign up for a free credit monitoring service. If not, put a fraud alert on your account with the credit bureaus. "If someone's going to open an account in your name, and they've run a credit check to do that, you get alerted, and you have to approve that account," he added.Finally, make sure all of your accounts require two-factor authentication to log in.
We reached out to National Public Data Base about the hack but so far, they have not responded to the Troubleshooters for comment.
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