Hey, good thing I already got my personal information stolen from my doctor’s office or something so I already have a year’s free credit monitoring with alerts etc. 🙂↕️
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In the sense of "Simpsons did it!":
Equifax did it first.
Sure wish the massive corporate incompetence and malfeasance causing huge data leaks multiple times over the years would get mentioned every time one of these stories comes up.
Hackers did blah, this WOULD ALMOST matter, but!
We need to start redirecting some of those board bonuses and CEO dollars back into infrastructure to actually secure this shit as a required responsibility and stop places from being allowed to request personal information they shouldn't have.
These companies should be paying fines in the BILLIONS of dollars for their malfeasance. I got a notice from work this morning, this is horrifying.
Social Security Numbers are such a weird thing. Over here we've got an official rijksregisternummer that you get assigned at birth by the state and can be used to identify you. For some reason the USA decided that something like this is against their Freedoms ©®™, but when an agency gave people numbers for something completely different, that was never build to identify everyone in the country, everyone decided this is great to identify everyone in the country, so now everyone uses this system for something it was never built for.
The social security agency is the same thing here. SSN is the same as your rijksregisternummer but don't take my word for it.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/orghist.html
It's literally an identification number assigned at by the federal government to identify you - usually you get them at birth but not always. Depends on your parents I suppose.
Good luck with my credit score, hackers.
The past addresses thing is kind of spooky. I once got a bequest of stock options from the company I worked for and they were claimable online. One of the ways in which they verified my identity was to have me pick out actual addresses I'd lived at in the past (one of them more than 15 years prior) from a list containing other addresses. Somebody with access to a list of my past addresses might have been able to claim my fifty grand worth of options before I did.
Uh, I got bad news. If I search for my name, there are freely and publicly available online directories that show all my past addresses (and phone numbers) going back over 20 years. That's why I had to pay a service that searches for this crap and submits requests on my behalf to have them take it down. I think California's law where you can also ask once to be removed from all of them will go into effect soon?
Uh, I got bad news.
Not for me! I got laid off by this company so no more stock options, ever. Yay!
Ah, ok. It's still very concerning that anyone bases identity-verification on very publicly available data.
I hate those verifications. I view it like drm in software - it's more of a hindrence for the user than it is for the bad actor.
Why would you need to claim them to begin with? My company just adds them to my stock account via payroll.
I would imagine that, if they go unclaimed for x amount of time, the company gets to reclaim them
I had no stock account at this point, at least none involving my company since my company did not have stock before this. What had happened was my non-stock company was purchased by a larger stock company and I was granted a bequest of the new company's stock.
If this is Wells Fargo making more fake credit cards and charging them in their clients names I’m going to be hangry
All your shit was already out there. Might as well fuck up your credit before somebody else does.
Looks like I’m not alone this year.
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