Once criminal hackers get a person’s username and email address, they can begin to launch a targeted spear phish scam. Scammers copy the design of each breached entities outgoing email campaign and blast the breached list with “account update” or other ruses.
Gaming site Sega Pass was hacked. On the Sega Pass website it states, “we had identified that unauthorized entry was gained to our Sega Pass database.” Numerous outlets report hackers stole Sega Pass members’ email addresses, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords.
The recent Epsilon data breach resulted in a similar loss of data. Epsilon is a marketing company that sends over 40 billion emails a year, and keeps millions of consumer email addresses on file.
Q: If both my wife and I sign up, can we both do so under one account (i.e. give you both our Social Security numbers), or would we need to purchase two separate accounts?
A: Trusted ID, one of our top rated identity theft protection services, offers family plans that will cover both you and your wife. The plan actually includes everyone living at the same address, so if you have children or inlaws living with you it would cover them too. When you sign up you’ll need to provide both your wife’s and your Social Security number, as it is an unique identifier that allows TrustedID to access your credit history. Also, TrustedID needs to know your Social Security number so they can monitor for the suspicious or fraudulent use of it.
There are 2 family plan options. IDFreeze is a bit cheaper, at $13.46 per month (paid annually), but doesn’t include credit report monitoring or credit scores.
Of all the things God would tell you to do, would it be break into someone’s house? Probably not. He might tell you to go invest in a home security system to prevent a home invasion but otherwise….no, I don’t think so.
Gawker reports “The Connecticut native was arrested for breaking into a stranger’s home, telling the owner that God made him do it, and then proceeding to smash statues of Roman soldiers and a marble table with a fireplace poker. Then he took a shower and dressed himself in the clothing of a deceased man who used to live there.
B.J. Ostergren is a proud Virginian. She’s known as “The Virginia Watchdog,” but I like to call her “The Pit Bull of Personal Privacy.” She is relentless in her efforts to protect citizens’ privacy, and her primary concern is the posting of personal information online. To make this point, she finds politicians’ personal information, usually Social Security numbers, on their own states’ websites, and republishes that information online.
Publicly appointed government employees known as Clerks of Courts, County Clerks, or Registrars are responsible for handling and managing public records, including birth, death, marriage, court, property, and business filings for municipalities.