quote:Originally posted by smschulz:quote:Originally posted by radioman:
I never really trusted them. Something about the background of their founder bothered me.
Your link is a massive click-bait site.
Interrsting. Neither I nor anyone I know got contacted (as far as those people told me). I wonder if my last clearance was old enough to have not been in that database.quote:Originally posted by sns3guppy:
A couple of years ago the database for the clearinghouse for security clearances got hacked...which is to say that the personal data for tens of millions of personnel who hold or have held security clearances...was taken. That data is far, far more comprehensive than any other database, and extends far beyond our own lives.
That database has quite literally every detail about the individual, as well as his or her family, friends, neighbors, former landlords, you name it. Not only was my information taken, but numerous other people that I know directly or peripherally were contacted to say the breach had occurred, and offered a year of monitoring. Ironically, while my data was taken, it seems I was the only one on my list NOT contacted with the warning.
quote:Originally posted by LS1 GTO:quote:Originally posted by chongosuerte:quote:Originally posted by 220-9er:
Why would anyone waste money on that crap?
Just do a credit freeze.
Costs little to nothing and works.
+1
This is my approach. Any reason it could fail?
It costs nothing per the article in radioman's post above (a good, but long, read). The article points out though:quote:Customers pay LifeLock $10 a month to call a credit bureau every three months and put a fraud alert on an account. By law, if one bureau is notified, it must alert the other two.
So in essence, you're paying them $120/yr to do something four times ($30 per effort) which you could do on your own - if you are disciplined enough to remember.