Credit Monitoring Services - Any recommendation?

[tiddlywinks]

I was just notified of yet another substantial size data breach. This one involving mostly health and other types of insurance data. And as to be expected, at a company I've never heard of. Of course, it includes billing, payment, claims, banking, and personal data.

Any recommendations for Credit Monitoring Services?

Thanks

 

[mervyn]

Freeze your 3 credit agencies files, don’t worry too much.

 

[ph1l]

Any recommendations for Credit Monitoring Services?

https://aaa.protectmyid.com free with AAA membership
https://mastercardidps.idprotectiononline.com free if you have a mastercard
https://www.experianidworks.com free but I'm not sure if it accepts new enrollments

And, if you want suggestions on what credit reporting to lock:

https://www.reddit.com/r/path%3D%252Fr%252FIdentityTheft%252Fcomments%252Fuvv3ij%252F

 

[ktm]

I was just notified of yet another substantial size data breach. This one involving mostly health and other types of insurance data. And as to be expected, at a company I've never heard of. Of course, it includes billing, payment, claims, banking, and personal data.

Any recommendations for Credit Monitoring Services?

Thanks

Was it from "Change Healthcare"? If so, it's a scam.

 

[ph1l]

Was it from "Change Healthcare"? If so, it's a scam.

Change Healthcare might be a scam, but their data breach isn't.
https://www.wgal.com/article/change-healthcare-letter-about-data-breach/62288697

Change Healthcare sends out more letters informing patients about data breach

Updated: 2:47 PM EDT Sep 20, 2024
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Viewers are reaching out to the 8 On Your Side team about a letter they received, informing them that they may be involved in a data breach. It involves a company many people have never heard of.

We first told you about this letter when it was first sent out about a month ago.

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Now, another batch of letters is being delivered to more victims of what could be one of the largest breaches of medical records ever.

It involves Change Healthcare, one of the largest health payment processing companies in the world. It handles medical claims.

If you get one of these letters, it will be addressed to you at your home address and includes your full name.

It tells you that the following information may have been accessed:

• Health insurance data, including policy numbers, medical records, test results and images
• Billing insurance claims and payment data
• Social Security numbers and driver's license data

This six-page letter is legitimate – not a scam.

Change Healthcare is offering two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection. That offer is outlined in the letter.

The company still has not revealed how many victims may be involved in this breach.

To enroll in their free, 2-year credit monitoring (I did today this for my wife who received the letter from Change Healthcare).

Call 1-866-262-4342 from a cell phone. Enter 1 and/or say "yes" a few times, and they will send a text message with a link for app.idx.us that lets you enroll.

 

[mervyn]

Change Healthcare might be a scam, but their data breach isn't.
https://www.wgal.com/article/change-healthcare-letter-about-data-breach/62288697


To enroll in their free, 2-year credit monitoring (I did today this for my wife who received the letter from Change Healthcare).

Call 1-866-262-4342 from a cell phone. Enter 1 and/or say "yes" a few times, and they will send a text message with a link for app.idx.us that lets you enroll.

credit monitoring service anyone offers is via those three credit agencies, experian moslty.

regardless, install those three credit bureau apps to freeze and unfreeze your credit files is easy, to protected your credit files being run by random outfits. there is little you can do unless it is physical threats, just like you lost the wallet.

when you apply for new credit, just unfreeze. i did that in front of the credit person at the dealership, it is done within 5 minutes.

 

[ktm]

Change Healthcare might be a scam, but their data breach isn't.
https://www.wgal.com/article/change-healthcare-letter-about-data-breach/62288697


To enroll in their free, 2-year credit monitoring (I did today this for my wife who received the letter from Change Healthcare).

Call 1-866-262-4342 from a cell phone. Enter 1 and/or say "yes" a few times, and they will send a text message with a link for app.idx.us that lets you enroll.

So you called the people that allowed your information to be breached to give them the rest of your personal data so they can "monitor" it for you?

LOL...