RE: from Gail re: the terrible Equifax data breach

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Personally, I put a freeze on all of my credit report agency accounts.
I did this about 15 years ago.

However, it's not clear whether the PINs associated with the credit
freezes were also compromised.  I may go through the trouble of resetting
my PIN for Equifax, but it is very onerous -- you need to write letters,
receive letters, send more letters, etc.

I'm cc'ing my sister on this email.  She had had her identity stolen a few
years ago and has had to go through quite a bit of trouble to correct the
many problems.  (I also had checks stolen about 20 years ago and that
caused me much grief, too, at the time.  It's been OK since.)

 > From: "http://www.waylandcomputer.com/~Dana"; <http://www.waylandcomputer.com/~dana>
 > Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 23:14:10 +0000
 >
 > H Gail,
 > 
 > Unfortunately, this is probably only the first of many large data breaches.  
 > Other than keeping a really close eye on all your accounts and checking your 
 > credit report on a regular basis, I would suggest that you read this article 
 > from CNN : 
 > http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/09/pf/what-to-do-equifax-hack/index.html
 > 
 > If you want, you can go crazy and close all your accounts, reopen all new ones 
 > and put a freeze on your credit account and drive yourself crazy or just sit 
 > back and be diligent about checking your accounts.  Some Clients of mine have 
 > decided to subscribe to various services like LifeLock but it is probably just 
 > a matter of time before they get hacked as well?
 > 
 > Dana
 > 
 > From: Gail [http://www.cox.net/~g3]
 > Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 5:40 PM
 > To: http://www.waylandcomputer.com/~Dana; 'robert'
 > Subject: from Gail re: the terrible Equifax data breach
 > 
 > Hi Dana and Robert,
 > 
 > Do you have any suggestions - or if it is too early to know - once you perhaps 
 > know later - regarding what we should do in a safe way regarding the Equifax 
 > data breach in terms of what to do if anything to prevent our personal ID 
 > information to be used in a criminal way against us.
 > 
 > Dana, I have included Robert in this email, who is Don's son-in-law whose 
 > career field is in the computer industry where he lives in where-I-live. Robert,
 > I have included Dana in this email who is my brother in Wayland, Mass. who 
 > owns his own computer business.
 > 
 > I look forward to your replies as soon as you can. It's hard to believe all the 
 > bad news lately from the terrible Southern Texas hurricane, to the terrible 
 > hurricane in the Caribbean and Florida, to the 8 on the Richter scale 
 > earthquake in Chiapas, Mexico including the town of Tuxtla Gutierrez which is 
 > where our wonderful and loving guests we housed this July are from through The 
 > Friendship Force, the International and domestic home stay exchange 
 > organization we belong to, and now this terrible situation of the Equifax data 
 > breach affecting adversely 143 million US consumers.
 > 
 > Best,
 > Gail
 > http://www.cox.net/~g3<http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 > Noelle's-dad's-phone-number