Reading the articles, I find a similar thing that is done: Paying
for a year of ID theft insurance or some such.
Here is the situation for those of us that were part of the OPM
cracking from 2015:
Random attempts to open bank accounts by bad actors in our name
(which ever one of us it happens/ed to be)
Random attempts to open credit accounts by bad actors in our name
(which ever one it happens to).
So OPM did the one year thing to find out that it would have to
become permanent. So I get regular notices of attempts to open an
account. One person I personally know who was in law enforcement
and worked with Secret Service and Home land security is
constantly having problems like this.
My point is, once this has happened, you never know when you are
going to get hit and from what direction. And so these guys think
that 1 year of such "protection" is going to help.
And for those of you who own property, you might want to make
sure that you get notified if there is any activity, such as a
lien for some credit thing, or even a quit claim deed being
filed. You might have your property sold out from under you.
Just say'n'.
BTW -- that OPM crack included data on people that were not
getting clearances, but had to be talked with about the person
applying for the clearance(s). So this even included foreign
nationals that one is related to!!
So depending on the entity that is cracked, the information gets
into the dark web and it may include people that didn't even know
they had anything to do with the entity that got cracked.
Security on mainframes (and others) sometimes has a greater reach
when cracked than we realize.
Steve Thompson
On 2/15/2024 10:54 AM, P H wrote:
Passwords and hackers. Is there anything safe?
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Hi Bill,
I can relate to your suspicions about password managers. Not to long ago
Lastpass found out that they have been hacked, which must have been a big
problem for its end users (which, fortunately I am not). On the other hand,
I have way too many passwords to be manageable without a password manager.
So, I use not one, but two. With different master passwords. And using a
password manager will not prevent you from sharing passwords with trusted
friends. I usually tell my colleagues that use excel or notepad to keep
their passwords to try and use keepass. It is as easy to use as those
methods but far for secure.
Regards
Jack
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