I'm not naïve about our data security (or lack thereof). I've been a member of the NCHICA Privacy and Security workgroup and attended numerous national security forums. This breach hit me as The Big One, where only the most committed can now retain the delusion their data is secure.
Impact: my husband spent several hours on hold with the three credit firms attempting to get an understanding of their best recommendation for managing our credit statuses in the face of this new exposure. It quickly became clear the staff on the phones had minimal direction from their companies and generally knew less about the impact of the various credit statuses than we did. I spent a significant amount of time educating co-workers about their options. The entire episode has me wondering at what point people will begin to seriously consider technologies like blockchain.
Recovering CIO - 7 years ago
At this point of my life having been exposed to multiple breaches, at least the ones that I know of, I have to assume my privacy is so compromised that it's pointless to get exorcised about any single breach. Issuing a credit freeze is an excellent idea and if you haven't done so already, get on it now.
Who301 - 7 years ago
Because I understand that whomever has my data can hold on to it and sell it after the complimentary credit monitoring service timeline is complete, I will look to secure something for myself at that time. I'd love to place an indefinite credit freeze ... I'm not the type to sign up for spur of the moment loans or cards.
Fed Up - 7 years ago
After this latest and particularly egregious breach, we decided to place credit freezes on our files at the major agencies. We already have credit monitoring supplied after one of the many recent healthcare related breaches. We placed the freezes because the hassle of cleaning up a problem after it occurs outweighs the difficulty of unfreezing credit when needed.
HITgeek - 7 years ago
I have long practiced security and privacy risk minimizations of various sorts, so the data breach has not increased my overall risk. In fact, it may be improved due to environmental measures being taken on behalf of those who were affected.
More generally, most breaches have occurred when people were ignorant of their actual vulnerabilities and risks, lacked adequate administrative measures, believed their already-acquired technology protected them, failed to do periodic vulnerability re-assessment, did not keep protections up-to-date, lacked necessary funding & staff for security and privacy, or were simply complacent. Hackers know this is still the case.
I'm not naïve about our data security (or lack thereof). I've been a member of the NCHICA Privacy and Security workgroup and attended numerous national security forums. This breach hit me as The Big One, where only the most committed can now retain the delusion their data is secure.
Impact: my husband spent several hours on hold with the three credit firms attempting to get an understanding of their best recommendation for managing our credit statuses in the face of this new exposure. It quickly became clear the staff on the phones had minimal direction from their companies and generally knew less about the impact of the various credit statuses than we did. I spent a significant amount of time educating co-workers about their options. The entire episode has me wondering at what point people will begin to seriously consider technologies like blockchain.
At this point of my life having been exposed to multiple breaches, at least the ones that I know of, I have to assume my privacy is so compromised that it's pointless to get exorcised about any single breach. Issuing a credit freeze is an excellent idea and if you haven't done so already, get on it now.
Because I understand that whomever has my data can hold on to it and sell it after the complimentary credit monitoring service timeline is complete, I will look to secure something for myself at that time. I'd love to place an indefinite credit freeze ... I'm not the type to sign up for spur of the moment loans or cards.
After this latest and particularly egregious breach, we decided to place credit freezes on our files at the major agencies. We already have credit monitoring supplied after one of the many recent healthcare related breaches. We placed the freezes because the hassle of cleaning up a problem after it occurs outweighs the difficulty of unfreezing credit when needed.
I have long practiced security and privacy risk minimizations of various sorts, so the data breach has not increased my overall risk. In fact, it may be improved due to environmental measures being taken on behalf of those who were affected.
More generally, most breaches have occurred when people were ignorant of their actual vulnerabilities and risks, lacked adequate administrative measures, believed their already-acquired technology protected them, failed to do periodic vulnerability re-assessment, did not keep protections up-to-date, lacked necessary funding & staff for security and privacy, or were simply complacent. Hackers know this is still the case.