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Just spent about 10 mins. setting up a credit freeze on all 3 of the credit reporting sites. Apparently there was a massive security breach on a government server a while back and millions of social security numbers, birthdates & other personal information were compromised. There was a site you could go to see if your info was stolen & mine was. I had been putting off doing a credit freeze because I was afraid it would be complicated & hard to do. Tonight I got an alert from one of my credit card companies that monitors my credit reports that my SS# was found on the dark web. They had links & ph numbers of all 3 reporting agencies so I went ahead & got my credit frozen. It was very quick & simple and hopefully will really keep anyone from trying to steal my identity. I'm going to suggest my sisters do the same with their credit. It's easy enough to unfreeze if you want to apply for a loan or a credit card. Consider this your Public Service Announcement & Good Night from Belleview!

<blockquote data-quote="flgirl51" data-source="post: 1755352" data-attributes="member: 56228">Just spent about 10 mins. setting up a credit freeze on all 3 of the credit reporting sites.&nbsp; Apparently there was a massive security breach on a government server a while back and millions of social security numbers, birthdates &amp; other personal information were compromised.&nbsp; There was a site you could go to see if your info was stolen &amp; mine was.&nbsp; I had been putting off doing a credit freeze because I was afraid it would be complicated &amp; hard to do.&nbsp; Tonight I got an alert from one of my credit card companies that monitors my credit reports that my SS# was found on the dark web.&nbsp; They had links &amp; ph numbers of all 3 reporting agencies so I went ahead &amp; got my credit frozen.&nbsp; It was very quick &amp; simple and hopefully will really keep anyone from trying to steal my identity.&nbsp; I'm going to suggest my sisters do the same with their credit.&nbsp; It's easy enough to unfreeze if you want to apply for a loan or a credit card.&nbsp; Consider this your Public Service Announcement &amp; Good Night from Belleview!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="flgirl51, post: 1755352, member: 56228"] [SIZE=6]Just spent about 10 mins. setting up a credit freeze on all 3 of the credit reporting sites. Apparently there was a massive security breach on a government server a while back and millions of social security numbers, birthdates & other personal information were compromised. There was a site you could go to see if your info was stolen & mine was. I had been putting off doing a credit freeze because I was afraid it would be complicated & hard to do. Tonight I got an alert from one of my credit card companies that monitors my credit reports that my SS# was found on the dark web. They had links & ph numbers of all 3 reporting agencies so I went ahead & got my credit frozen. It was very quick & simple and hopefully will really keep anyone from trying to steal my identity. I'm going to suggest my sisters do the same with their credit. It's easy enough to unfreeze if you want to apply for a loan or a credit card. Consider this your Public Service Announcement & Good Night from Belleview![/SIZE] [/QUOTE]