The world was focused in early September 2017 on the hurricane that hit the South Florida Coast, and rightfully so.
However, another storm was brewing, and continues to rage: cyber crime.
The most recent storm was an attack on one of the largest credit bureaus of the United States, Equifax. Over 143 million Americans were affected by this data breach. This is the mother of attacks on the cyber world. The credit bureau holds information on not only the credit line of people and their scores, but also social security numbers, addresses, past addresses, family members, bank accounts, and some criminal records. All of this information can be used to conduct identity theft, file false tax returns, and open fraudulent credit and bank accounts. It is extremely difficult and tedious to recover from identity theft, so it is critical to take action now.
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