A Boston local news station recently interviewed a local man who had his Experian account hijacked after he'd frozen his credit with the big three consumer reporting bureaus. It's unbelievable that Experian still hasn't done jack about this problem that I've written about ad nauseum for years […] - ThreadSky

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briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy • 23 days ago

A Boston local news station recently interviewed a local man who had his Experian account hijacked after he'd frozen his credit with the big three consumer reporting bureaus. It's unbelievable that Experian still hasn't done jack about this problem that I've written about ad nauseum for years […]

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lauerhahn.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy•22 days ago

@briankrebs Experian is utterly incompetent. They refused for months to allow me to freeze my credit. I froze it with the other two credit bureaus, no problem. Experian's website just gave me an error message and a number to call. The number is entirely automated and the only message you can […]

briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•23 days ago

What's even more crazy is when you call Experian (assuming you somehow manage to get someone on the phone) and tell them someone hijacked your account, they will walk you through how to do what the thieves did you, so that you can regain access to your account. You know what their response is […]

katrinakatrinka.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•23 days ago

@briankrebs
You can freeze your credit for free and then temporarily unfreeze it when you need to use it.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/what-does-it-mean-to-put-a-security-freeze-on-my-credit-report-en-1341/

katrinakatrinka.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•23 days ago

@briankrebs
You can also freeze your data at other data aggregators.
https://www.myfico.com/credit-education/blog/freeze-other-credit-reports

jimluther.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy•23 days ago

@briankrebs there are zero comments on that story at boston25nrws site. Maybe you should comment with your past coverage?

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