| Joelcool7 said: Turns on the news tomorow. Canadian citizen Joel Reimer planted a bomb on a train in Turkey. Interpol issues an arrest warrant for the British Columbia man...... Oh shit! On a serious note I guess Galaki's alittle right I sorta did just challenge someone to hack me...whoops! I wonder how much damage somebody could do with the info I have availible on the net? Eeeek! |
If you freeze your credit with all credit bureaus hackers really can't do shit. Freezing credit is the safest way to protect yourself. However, you should only freeze your credit when you know you won't be trying to apply for a credit car, car loan, mortgage, etc.. in the near future. So freezing your credit basically makes any hacking worthless.
This is why Clark Howard (radio guy that talks about saving money and not getting ripped off) dissed Sony's response to them getting hacked. Sony offered to pay for a year of credit monitoring which would have just informed you that someone might be using your credit. He stated that Sony should have offered to pay for the credit freezes (about 15-25 per bureau) instead of monitoring. Sure monitoring is a good but it does nothing to prevent credit fraud. Credit freezing is the only preventative measure one can take to protect themselves fully.
