You can’t do anything besides the usual precautions. I get a notice of a data breach in the mail like every 3 weeks from companies who got hacked. It’s fucking ridiculous. My social security number has probably been leaked like 900 times. All of ours has

All you can do is:

  • change passwords
  • use good passwords
  • check your accounts frequently
  • freeze your credit
  • use 2FA with literally anything and everything
  • try to limit the number of one off accounts you have to create (hard to do when every fucking thing requires a fucking account, i.e. PSN account to play fucking Sony SINGLE PLAYER GAMES on Steam)
  • cross your fingers

We are all in same boat. Ive gotten dozens upon dozens of letters from companies. Most even say, sorry we were hacked 8 months ago. Letting you know all your personal info was stolen.

I’m sure my social security number, work history, previous addresses, relatives, cars I owned, houses…probably how many times I shit per day also.

Just keep your credit permanently frozen until you need it. Keeps credit card offers from your mailbox also…

Freeze your credit

I don’t know if it’s the same in the EU, but this is the single biggest thing you can do to protect yourself (I mean besides passwords and such). Freezing your credit makes it much hard to open a line of credit under your name like a random store credit card or such. Please try to do this as soon as you can.

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PSN account to play fucking Sony SINGLE PLAYER GAMES on Steam

Shove this verification can up your ass, boy

I would add password manager to that list.

And a service like SimpleLogin for having a different email address per service.

And unless you’re using a social network site and you want your followers from other social network to find you there, use a different username too.

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