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Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of every American. Here's how to protect yourself
la times via msn ^ | 8/14/24 | Story by Jon Healey

Posted on 08/14/2024 1:00:11 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

bout four months after a notorious hacking group claimed to have stolen an extraordinary amount of sensitive personal information from a major data broker, a member of the group has reportedly released most of it for free on an online marketplace for stolen personal data.

The breach, which includes Social Security numbers and other sensitive data, could power a raft of identity theft, fraud and other crimes, said Teresa Murray, consumer watchdog director for the U.S. Public Information Research Group.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: data; databreach; hackers; identity; identitytheft; pirg; scam; socialsecurity; ssnumbers
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1 posted on 08/14/2024 1:00:11 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

Oops. Looks like we need brand new digital IDs now.


2 posted on 08/14/2024 1:04:26 PM PDT by bak3r
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To: RomanSoldier19

I do not trust MSN anymore than the hackers.


3 posted on 08/14/2024 1:05:39 PM PDT by exnavy
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To: RomanSoldier19

Everyone declare bankruptcy at once. Start over.


4 posted on 08/14/2024 1:06:34 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: RomanSoldier19

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5 posted on 08/14/2024 1:07:19 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: bak3r

To keep track of pesky citizens, not illegal migrants, of course.


6 posted on 08/14/2024 1:07:20 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: exnavy

One of their recommendations is to contact Google to see if you are on the dark web. Uh huh. I would trust a snuff film site over Google.


7 posted on 08/14/2024 1:09:36 PM PDT by Right Brother (From Biden to Harris. From pee pads to kneepads.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

It should be clear by now to everyone that the Internet was a bad idea.


8 posted on 08/14/2024 1:09:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Progress is a bad thing IMHO


9 posted on 08/14/2024 1:14:11 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Protect myself? I just wish some illegal would get a high paying job using my social security number to build up my social security retirement earnings.


10 posted on 08/14/2024 1:14:24 PM PDT by Reno89519 (“We believe in the collective,” says Gun Grabbing Harris and Stolen Valor Timmy "Tampon" Walz.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Mama always said, “Them dang computers are going to be the death of US all !!!”


11 posted on 08/14/2024 1:14:57 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Why would a data broker have my Social Security numbet?


12 posted on 08/14/2024 1:16:01 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: BenLurkin

Whose idea was it anyhow?


13 posted on 08/14/2024 1:17:03 PM PDT by aspasia
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To: BenLurkin

Evil and corruption always finds the newest and most efficient pathway.


14 posted on 08/14/2024 1:17:26 PM PDT by Right Brother (From Biden to Harris. From pee pads to kneepads.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Progress has always been a double-edged sword.


15 posted on 08/14/2024 1:20:31 PM PDT by Right Brother (From Biden to Harris. From pee pads to kneepads.)
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To: BenLurkin

If the internet was a bad idea, what are you doing on FR, hypocrite?


16 posted on 08/14/2024 1:21:56 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Trickle down corruption


17 posted on 08/14/2024 1:23:46 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: monkeyshine
Everyone declare bankruptcy at once. Start over.

It will be done for us... The Great Reset.

18 posted on 08/14/2024 1:24:07 PM PDT by fso301
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To: bak3r
Oops. Looks like we need brand new digital IDs now.

Tattooed on your right hand or forehead. (Most Freepers will get to what I'm referring.)

19 posted on 08/14/2024 1:26:08 PM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland!)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

The problem is progress for the mere sake of progress, as I see it. To me it was obvious at the outset, when they plopped that first IBM PC on my desk (well, cubicle), that whatever benefit the advent of computers might have would be offset by the cost in loss of privacy.

I feared then that 1984 would play out before my eyes, and over the intervening years it often seems that is has.


20 posted on 08/14/2024 1:26:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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