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[gregj410]

Yes. If you google CEO of Lifelock hacked. You will see all the details. I would post a link if i knew how from my phone.

Yes, and it's still the highest rated such service, which really tells you that the only service that you can really rely on is yourself.

Be vigilant and avoid doing stupid stuff on-line.

The hackers have done far more damage than the $2500 Robert reported.
Reference: https://www.wired.com/2010/05/lifelock-identity-theft/

I don’t know why this is funny as hell to me. Maybe because the guy has that ‘I triple dog dare you’ look on his face.

I guess I don’t really get the point of posting your Social Security number. I mean really once they have that don’t they have everything?

Wouldn’t it be more of a challenge if you put your name and address and then triple dog dared somebody to hack you?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Too much Tik-tok.....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Wayne, Rufus, and gregj, I appreciate your perspectives . Thank you .

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Wayne, Rufus, and gregj, I appreciate your perspectives . Thank you .

Honestly, any of these security firms seem like prime targets to hack. Why would anyone want to create a target by clustering information in one location, virtual. cloud, or otherwise?

Keep nothing of value on your phone that can be traced back to you in any way. Nothing financial and not your name or address even... or silly stuff like the codes to open your garage or start your car....and take your home address off your GPS, too!

[up148]

A cowboy, who just moved to Montana from Texas, walks into a bar and orders three mugs of Bud.
He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn.
When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more.
The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy,
"You know, a mug goes flat after I draw it.
It would taste better if you bought one at a time."
The cowboy replies, "Well, you see, I have two brothers.
One is in Arizona, the other is in Colorado.
When we all left our home in Texas, we promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days when we drank together.
So I'm drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for myself."
The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there.
The cowboy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way.
He orders three mugs and drinks them in turn.
One day, he comes in and only orders two mugs.
All the regulars take notice and fall silent.
When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says,
"I don't want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my condolences on your loss."
The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in his eyes and he laughs.
"Oh, no, everybody's just fine," he explains.
"It's just that my wife and I joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking."
“It hasn't affected my brothers though."

[J. S. Bach]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A moldy-oldy, but still a decent wheeze...

[gregj410]

Keep nothing of value on your phone that can be traced back to you in any way. Nothing financial and not your name or address even... or silly stuff like the codes to open your garage or start your car....and take your home address off your GPS, too!

While I think you’re well intentioned it’s a stretch to think people are going to behave this way today. I don’t know what the rate of hacking is but I suspect it’s not nearly as bad as you might think. My wife and kids know the password to my phone. I tell them all the time if I die start there, that’s where nearly everything is.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Keep nothing of value on your phone that can be traced back to you in any way. Nothing financial and not your name or address even... or silly stuff like the codes to open your garage or start your car....and take your home address off your GPS, too!

While I think you’re well intentioned it’s a stretch to think people are going to behave this way today.

I have no expectations of any of that being followed, but was just sharing that with Murph. They are hacking Kia's; home address in the GPS and the button on the mirror opens the garage door...and they have your ID since the registration is in the glove compartment.....

I don’t know what the rate of hacking is but I suspect it’s not nearly as bad as you might think. My wife and kids know the password to my phone. I tell them all the time if I die start there, that’s where nearly everything is.

That's actually not a bad thing for them. But an amazingly large number of people apparently do a lot of amazingly stupid things with their phones. Do you keep off and locked when not in use?

[robert.]

Your major problems come from how others handle you info. Insurance company, doctors office, DMV, Big box store and inside jobs from credit card companies. Like Gregg i have a lot on my phone. I can snap a photo of a check and deposit it. I can hold my phone against a device and pay that way. I have a good verification system. If I use my debit card an instant message will ask if that was me. Text no and bam the transaction is cancelled.( May have been the best thing I had to set up while running for office)
I do see things on facebook that make me say " Hum" Things always pop up that are great fishing scams or so I think. You'll see a photo of a bunch of gems. With a caption. " Lets see what kind of superhero you would be. Touch your birthstone" Then they give you a photo of a cartoon hero and a story " Blah blah blah" A few days later you'll see. "Tell us the what day you were born on." OK. the 3rd. Here come another story. " well people born on the third like to Blah blah blah. Now they have your month and day. Later on you see " Tell us the year of your birth and we'll tell you the hot gossip from that year. Some are even right to the point. Tell us your birthdate and we'll tell you what happened that day. Here is one i see a lot. A person's first car says a lot about them. Tells us your first car and we can tell you what kind of person you are. Now they have on of your security questions. People fall for all kinds of sheet.

[gregj410]

Do you keep off and locked when not in use?

My phone is always on but locked when not in use. I use a 4 digit pass or facial recognition to unlock it. I do lock everything all the time, house, cars, etc. too, probably not even necessary where I live.

[Mitch]

Somebody hacked my debit card. The wife and I have cards for the same account, but with different numbers. In January, she went in to check the balance when paying bills and discovered we had a 0.00 balance, so she called the bank. The bank said that it was my card that someone had used 3 times, once in November, once in December, and once in January, each time for the exact same amount of $39.95, and they'd used it to purchase some on-line game. There wasn't enough money left in January so the bank covered it out of our savings account. Naturally, the old girl nailed me askin' what the hell I'd been buyin' when I knew how tight our money was. I said I hadn't even used my card but I did twice in early November. Once was an order to Rock Auto for car parts, (secure site), and another time for gasoline at a station in Worthington. The pump at the station would not access the card so I had to go inside, pay for $30 bucks worth of fuel, and then go back out and pump it when they turned the pump on. I suspect there was an unauthorized chip reader in proximity to the pump and that's what interfered with my card. It was either that or a dishonest cashier who copied the number, but how did he get the pin? At any rate, the bank redeposited all three transactions, canceled my card and issued a new one. People plant chip readers all over the place inconspicuously, and many don't check transactions and balances nearly often enough. Hence, I use my Pump 1st card only at Sheetz, pump my fuel, then go in and pay cash. The debit card is now for extreme emergencies only.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Mitch, gregj, and Robert , Wow, that’s a lot of really helpful information, adding perspective and experience to where I had very little. Thank you, most sincerely .

[up148]

Man, your tagline covers that monstrosity perfectly.