Oh No π© A Security Breach & Hacked, what do I do now?
On Aug 16, 2021 T-Mobile announced a security breach and it was reported on Aug 18, 2021 and posted on 9to5mac and confirmed over 47+ million T-Mobile users information taken, includes Social Security Numbers.
A little information about T-Mobile. T-Mobile is the brand name used by the mobile communications subsidiaries of the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG. The brand is active in the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United States.
What is T-Mobile telling it's customers to do? If you are a customer of T-Mobile please read T-Mobile's "Our Response" by T-Mobile Click Here
Now that you read the above and we all know that since the information highway exploded online and you sign up for this or that and your information is everywhere, lets call it your finger prints left at every place you ever visited online a Digital Marketers dream.
It's very important when any type of breach happens to your privacy or it has been stolen sometimes you can't leave it up to any Company to protect you because no matter how hard you've tried erasing that finger print smudge it's just not going away.
- Here are some helpful easy tips.
Contact all three Credit Bureaus Equifax, Experian, TransUnion and get a free copy of your Credit Report.
- Experian- Your Free Credit Report Once you get the report review it, if you see anything fishy you can contact the party that is showing up on your credit report, if you see an old debt you are able to get old debts dropped off, just look up in your state how long a collection can be collected on you - (Each states has different Laws on Collection of a debt) Amount of years for a Collection Agency to collect a debt.. You can request it be removed. (this will also helps you repair your credit)
- Equifax- will give you one free Credit Report a year Click Here
- TransUnion- will also give you one free Credit Report a year Click Here
- Remove yourself from a Company that holds 80 Billion Record!
Read how to remove yourself from databases that track your Email addresses, Name, Address, Phone Number, Driver License's, just about everything, your home purchases, car purchases and businesses you've open and some of your social media you signed up with, they even have some things you've have written on a comment that you left on a website you visited. Here is one database that you can get yourself removed off
Click Here and remove yourself from 80 Billion records, YES! you are reading correctly 80 BILLON RECORDS!
Click Here Consumerfinance.gov. Lots of information in PDF form.
If all fails hire a Good Attorney and sue the Company - If you end up with Monetary Damages you might recoup some of the money stolen from Fraud in your name and remember don't let any Collection Agency Bully you, YOU HAVE RIGHTS!
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