I just found out yesterday that as a result of a data breach at the University of California all of my personal identifying information is now "out there" floating around in cyber space. Name, address, phone, email, and SSN. Possibly more including partial employment history. This has been confirmed by Experian who alerted me to let me know that I wasn't just "potentially involved" in the breach but they actually found MY specific info out there.
I've frozen my credit with all 3 and signed up for the "one free year" of monitoring and identity theft insurance but somehow these things exactly make me feel warm and fuzzy inside. This seems like a "forever" thing that I could potentially have to deal with repeatedly for the rest of my life. So now what? And when my year of free "protection" is up, then what?
Submitted May 25, 2021 at 08:46PM by the_renter_throwaway https://ift.tt/3fOOvs4
