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Quill and Feather Pub [Public] / Re: Someone has had a data leak or sold off private info
« Last post by Matthew on April 20, 2024, 01:11:11 AM »I'd have to go through a tedious process to temporarily unlock if I needed to open a bank account, get a credit card, move, or take out a loan. All of those are at best unlikely. I would have thought twice if any of those were things I needed to do frequently, but that isn't the case.Freezing credit is an easy step for mitigating identity theft. I think since the big breaches in the US, freezing must now be free at all bureaus.
I will note I had a bit of a hiccup when I discovered trying to sign up for a new internet provider required a hard credit pull, and despite unfreezing and giving it two days, the internet provider didn't see it as unfrozen. So if you have to unfreeze, I would recommend doing so for 1-2 weeks at a time so everything can percolate.