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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; scam; socialsecurity; ssnumbers
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To: RomanSoldier19
Oops. Looks like we need brand new digital IDs now.
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posted on
08/14/2024 1:04:26 PM PDT
by
bak3r
To: RomanSoldier19
I do not trust MSN anymore than the hackers.
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posted on
08/14/2024 1:05:39 PM PDT
by
exnavy
To: RomanSoldier19
Everyone declare bankruptcy at once. Start over.
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posted on
08/14/2024 1:06:34 PM PDT
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: RomanSoldier19
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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)
To: bak3r
To keep track of pesky citizens, not illegal migrants, of course.
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posted on
08/14/2024 1:07:20 PM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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.
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posted on
08/14/2024 1:09:36 PM PDT
by
Right Brother
(From Biden to Harris. From pee pads to kneepads.)
To: RomanSoldier19
It should be clear by now to everyone that the Internet was a bad idea.
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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.)
To: BenLurkin
Progress is a bad thing IMHO
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.
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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.)
To: RomanSoldier19
Mama always said, “Them dang computers are going to be the death of US all !!!”
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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.)
To: RomanSoldier19
Why would a data broker have my Social Security numbet?
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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.)
To: BenLurkin
Whose idea was it anyhow?
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posted on
08/14/2024 1:17:03 PM PDT
by
aspasia
To: BenLurkin
Evil and corruption always finds the newest and most efficient pathway.
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posted on
08/14/2024 1:17:26 PM PDT
by
Right Brother
(From Biden to Harris. From pee pads to kneepads.)
To: TribalPrincess2U
Progress has always been a double-edged sword.
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posted on
08/14/2024 1:20:31 PM PDT
by
Right Brother
(From Biden to Harris. From pee pads to kneepads.)
To: BenLurkin
If the internet was a bad idea, what are you doing on FR, hypocrite?
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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.)
To: RomanSoldier19
To: monkeyshine
Everyone declare bankruptcy at once. Start over.It will be done for us... The Great Reset.
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posted on
08/14/2024 1:24:07 PM PDT
by
fso301
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.)
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posted on
08/14/2024 1:26:08 PM PDT
by
piytar
(Remember Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland!)
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.
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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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