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At least 4.4 million people have had their personal information stolen.
I recommend you freeze your credit with all three credit bureaus.
You should also enroll in an identity theft protection and credit monitoring service.
If it seems like hardly a day can go by without a major security breach, you're not wrong. Adidas, Farmers Insurance, Google, and numerous other companies have had their data exposed due to several security breaches related to third-party applications. Now, a new attack on TransUnion -- one of the US's three major credit bureaus -- has revealed the personal data of at least 4.4 million people.
TransUnion tracks the credit history of nearly 260 million Americans. If TransUnion knows for a fact that your information was revealed, you should have heard from TransUnion by now via postal mail.
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First, here's the information we know has been swiped.
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