It's not difficult to prevent that. Be sure you have two-factor authentication enabled on login. It can be a pain sometime, but it's effective. Try to use an authenticator app, rather than a text message.

Also, set up all of your accounts to immediately alert you of any activity. Someone got my credit card info a few months ago, but I got a text message at the moment they tried to use it and I blocked the card from further use within minutes.

After my wife and I have had our personal info compromised by various government agencies (including mine by the feds to the Chinese!), we have resigned ourselves to paying for credit file monitoring for the rest of our lives. But fortunately, we haven't had to deal with identity theft.

It's not difficult to prevent that. Be sure you have two-factor authentication enabled on login. It can be a pain sometime, but it's effective. Try to use an authenticator app, rather than a text message.

Also, set up all of your accounts to immediately alert you of any activity. Someone got my credit card info a few months ago, but I got a text message at the moment they tried to use it and I blocked the card from further use within minutes.

After my wife and I have had our personal info compromised by varous government agencies (including mine by the feds to the Chinese!), we have resigned ourselves to paying for credit file monitoring for the rest of our lives. But fortunately, we haven't had to deal with identity theft.

It's not difficult to prevent that. Be sure you have two-factor authentication enabled on login. It can be a pain sometime, but it's effective. Try to use an authenticator app, rather than a text message.

Also, set up all of your accounts to alert you of any activity. Someone got my credit card info a few months ago, but I got a text message at the moment they tried to use it and I blocked the card from further use within minutes.

After my wife and I have had our personal info compromised by varous government agencies (including mine by the feds to the Chinese!), we have resigned ourselves to paying for credit file monitoring for the rest of our lives. But fortunately, we haven't had to deal with identity theft.