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Hackers Steal Phone Records of 'Nearly All' AT&T Customers
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I do, and I do. You should. Credit scores affect insurance rates. Credit reports should be checked every four months, one report from each agency each year. Something may be on the credit report that adversely affects the credit score.
Regulation E (in the U.S.). The bank has to prove the person did the transaction, the card holder does not have to prove they did not make the transaction. Debit cards and credit cards are electronic transactions covered by regulation E. Fraudulent checks are much more difficult to prove and recover money.
Look, if you’re the type of person who genuinely pays off all revolving credit balances monthly then your credit score is always good and of no interest. It is a trivial concern. What is important is the financial statement.
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Because it’s a hassle and inconvenient. Combined with a touch of not knowing one’s rights. And most importantly not knowing one’s obligations.
They only put in a traffic light after someone gets killed. 😩
But you know, US is the land of freedom. Vote eith your wallet. Change your telco provider. That is the real customer protection!
Not like in the socialist EU... where GDPR, NIS2,... are in place... Where Privacy Shield agreement were stopped!
Well, here in Europe banks are obliged to back you up when you've lost money when your debit card has been "skimmed" or simply stolen. Usually this is done within a day after the fraud is reported.
Just saw this…
AT&T reportedly paid hacker $370,000 to delete stolen customer data
AT&T reportedly paid hacker $370,000 to delete stolen customer data
That doesn't mean the massive breach has all been cleaned up, though.
mashable.com
That is great, but I'd rather use my Amex and live in the U.S.A. than live anywhere in Europe and yes, I've been there several times.
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Homie who do you think eventually ends up with this kind of data? Nice friendly nerds who just want to comb through PII from a hack but not actually do anything with it?
Enjoy the inevitable stolen identity situation you find yourself in as a result of your naïveté.
my data has been stolen 10x over already, far worse in equifax and OPM breaches than some metadata
So because you’ve already lost what you perceive to be more important data in larger leaks and hacks, any subsequent breaches of your privacy - however seemingly insignificant they may be - are all but given a hall pass because of what preceded them. Huh. That’s certainly one argument, I guess.
It really depends on where in Europe, but I know what you mean.
Understand that anything you do on your phone is not secure. With that in mind weigh
Security over convenience and decide what you do on your phone
Unfortunately, the mobile providers don’t care about hacking as they know you have nowhere to go to get secure service
Sad but true. It’s gotten to the point where they don’t offer free credit monitoring for a year and where they don’t tell you about the hacking till 2 years later (ATT)
Security over convenience and decide what you do on your phone
Unfortunately, the mobile providers don’t care about hacking as they know you have nowhere to go to get secure service
Sad but true. It’s gotten to the point where they don’t offer free credit monitoring for a year and where they don’t tell you about the hacking till 2 years later (ATT)
I have an old cellular iPad with an AT&T sim that I previously used with their pre-paid data plans. Haven't renewed for about a year, went to the settings and it thinks there's already an active AT&T plan but there isn't and no options to change anything. Whatever... went to AT&T's site entered the IMEI and it says they'll mail a new sim.
Then came the final step, after entering credit card and shipping info. They wanted to "verify it's really you" and said I must use a mobile device with a camera, scan a QR code, then take a picture of my driver's license, passport or similar. Have never seen anything like that before - 2fa via text and my Amex security code weren't enough for them. Is this because of the data breach?
Anyway, after wasting all this time I just cancelled and will get a T-mobile or other sim if I really want to keep using this old iPad. Seeing how well AT&T has been guarding our data, the last thing I want is to give them a scan of my driver's license!
Then came the final step, after entering credit card and shipping info. They wanted to "verify it's really you" and said I must use a mobile device with a camera, scan a QR code, then take a picture of my driver's license, passport or similar. Have never seen anything like that before - 2fa via text and my Amex security code weren't enough for them. Is this because of the data breach?
Anyway, after wasting all this time I just cancelled and will get a T-mobile or other sim if I really want to keep using this old iPad. Seeing how well AT&T has been guarding our data, the last thing I want is to give them a scan of my driver's license!
It sounds like you and I are on the same page, at least in that there should be repercussions for data leaks. Whether it be criminal offenses or rewards to customers impacted by the leak, it is shocking how much personal information we hand over to companies only to result in an eventual data leak. That should either be locked up so tight or not collected at all.