How to check if your credit information was stolen by hackers who broke into Equifax (143 million Americans affected)

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 7 months ago to The Gulch: General
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For your information.

I am currently considering putting "Fraud Alerts" on my Credit reports.

There are some other methods to use along with a way to see if you are among those effected.

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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They may try to create new accounts if they got enough information.
    Not sure I full trust these Credit Card companies, they likely have some dunces on board too!
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 7 months ago
    I wonder if the fact that I already had my credit cards replaced 3 times in the past 6 months (as recently as 2 weeks ago) will mean that some of the data the hackers got is now out of date? Or will they just create some new accounts for themselves using my data?
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Criminals are celebrated by the great unwashed because they too, are criminals and the unaware keep voting them into office.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 7 months ago
    Never mind that the criminals at the NSA have hacked 100% of the people, and we paid for them to do it to us. These guys are small potatoes in comparison. Will the worst criminals ever be punished?
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 7 months ago
    Thanks OUC We got a call from our bank fraud dept tonight my wife was apparently shopping in Minn and South Carolina at the same time. $200 at a grocery $200 at a dept store $200 at a restaurant all in Greenville S.C. I will be putting fraud alerts on this AM.
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