Comment on 2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed

pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• return2ozma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I know Ticketmaster just sent out millions of “sorry we got hacked, freeze your credit for free with this code” letters. Maybe they’re struggling to keep up with demand.

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  • pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Mine was for credit monitoring. You should be able to freeze your credit for free at any time

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• ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I did previously and had to wait until a weekday to talk to someone. It was a huge pain. Fuck those agencies.

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fuck those companies, they’d prefer that you thought of them as agencies because it makes them appear to be at list affiliated with the government.

    They’re not, they are private companies through and through

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• UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Are you proxying or using a VPN to access their site. I often see IP blocks, even if that proxy is a simple socks proxy to a VPS i own. Many VPS subnets are blocked/restricted wholesale, as are many of the big VPN endpoint ips.

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah I use VPN. Maybe I should jump to random countries or maybe turn it off.

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    • UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That will 100% cause it with the 3 larger creditors (where fraud targeting is likely one of the highest…)

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Happened to me, too. Just tried again a couple days later and it worked. Dunno why.

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Were you on vpn by any chance?

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nope.

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes. They’ll want to send you a letter with a passcode via the post office because of the breaches.

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