Have "security breaches" like Target, Anthem, etc., ever affected you?

I am the global Vice President of Enterprise Business Analytics at a Fortune 500 company. And I can tell you that privacy of your information is an illusion. The types of data that companies can buy from other companies even astounds me. In addition, most people would be shocked if they knew who was collecting data on your personal information.

I was a victim of ID theft 2 years ago

Jim - Sat, 02/07/2015 - 9:09pm

Detailed here with image documenting

Article about it here

Consequently we:

Use MyFico credit reporting
Subscribe to Experian Protect My ID
We have a special password on our credit account. To change our credit the credit company is required to call me and ask for that password.
And we check our 2 credit cards daily (Wells Fargo and Chase)

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Jim, how much do those two

Greg Long - Sun, 02/08/2015 - 1:33pm

Jim, how much do those two services (MyFico and Experian) cost?

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Greg Long, Ed.D. (SBTS)

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Grace Church, Des Moines, IA

Adjunct Instructor
School of Divinity
Liberty University

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Aaron Blumer - Sun, 02/08/2015 - 4:38pm

I went with 'no,' but the more accurate answer would be "Not as far as I know yet."

I have also experienced identity theft but it had nothing to do with security breaches. Just a "being stupid online" breach (a site linked to PayPal for their downloadable app, but in reality it redirected to a phishing site on the way. They did "sell" me the software, but also apparently sold a couple of id's and passwords to a third party who quickly got busy on ebay using my PayPal account. This was years ago. I walked away impressed w/PayPal. They caught it before I did and called me to say my account had been locked down due to suspicious activity... like Rolex watch and used car purchase suspicious. So that was fun. I did not end up being liable for any of that.... but also didn't get the watch or the car!)