I am a victim of a data breach, what do I do? (lemmy.world)

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I am an EU citizen and I was informed that my EURAXESS account was breached. They informed me that while the password wasn't stolen, all of my personal data including addresses, IDs from the CV was stolen and made available on some website.

They say that they're working towards making the site secure, etc., but I know that my personal info is out there. They have even told me to watch out for scams and phishing attempts over the next few months to come.

I am a bit shaken. Please tell me what steps I can take to gain back some control over this situation?

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[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can't do anything besides the usual precautions. I get a notice of a data breach in the mail like every 3 weeks from companies who got hacked. It's fucking ridiculous. My social security number has probably been leaked like 900 times. All of ours has

All you can do is:

change passwords
use good passwords
check your accounts frequently
freeze your credit
use 2FA with literally anything and everything
try to limit the number of one off accounts you have to create (hard to do when every fucking thing requires a fucking account, i.e. PSN account to play fucking Sony SINGLE PLAYER GAMES on Steam)
cross your fingers

[-] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago

Freeze your credit

I don’t know if it’s the same in the EU, but this is the single biggest thing you can do to protect yourself (I mean besides passwords and such). Freezing your credit makes it much hard to open a line of credit under your name like a random store credit card or such. Please try to do this as soon as you can.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I would add password manager to that list.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

Alias emails. Duck email etc. Duckduckgo extension allows you to create one-click email specifically for whatever bullshit at hand that you can one-click delete later.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

PSN account to play fucking Sony SINGLE PLAYER GAMES on Steam

Shove this verification can up your ass, boy

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