Had to keep calling credit monitoring

[XanaDUer2]

Finally got a helpful knowledgeable agent. She showed me how to sign into the pc. Shit, there were the three alerts about my personal info on the dark web. I was supposed to get an email but didn't.

No one knows why. Its 15 a month. The y r overwhelmed bc of a huge breach

[debm55]

1. Good Luck XanaDuer2

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Would it be easier for them to nuke the dark web so to speak?

I still don't understand how security got so lax.

I got one of those emails a while back.

[getagrip_already]

3. I used to work at a startup selling solutions to prevent cyber attacks

Ways to prevent and recover from encryption attacks.

Nobody was interested. It was too much work and was too expensive compared to having cyber insurance that would pay off the ransomeware attackers and get recovery keys.

It was cheaper to do nothing, so thats what they did.

Breaches dont cost them a lot of money, and insurance usually covers what it does cost.

Sure, they are increasing budgets to harden their systems, but it is slow and usually inneffective.

So short answer is they dont care.

[MotownPgh]

4. My credit is frozen. I don't need to

monitor. And there are no loans or mortgages in my future so they can stay that way. Try not to worry

[XanaDUer2]

6. I froze/fraud alerted

I'm worried locking down my ss would cause a problem with my ssdi money?

[ret5hd]

5. 1) Lock down your SSN:

https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10220.pdf

2) Lock down your credit (Experian, Transunion, Equifax)
https://www.usa.gov/credit-freeze

3) cancel your credit monitoring service and save yourself $15/month

Once info is out there on the dark (or light) web, those credit monitoring services can't do anything about it. And if you do the above steps, the criminals can't do anything with the info anyway.