I got two of these for free in back to back years and signed up for both.
One alerted about an online release of PII (mostly phone numbers and addresses) at the rate of a few per month, but there wasn’t really anything one could _do_ with that information.
The other never alerted me to anything.
Agreed that freezing credit is table stakes and much more useful than these services.
I froze my credit at the 3 bureaus. I figure this is enough of a stumbling block that they’ll move to the next person in the breach. I’d rather stop anything from happening than have a company claim they can clean it up once it happens.
I got two of these for free in back to back years and signed up for both.
One alerted about an online release of PII (mostly phone numbers and addresses) at the rate of a few per month, but there wasn’t really anything one could _do_ with that information.
The other never alerted me to anything.
Agreed that freezing credit is table stakes and much more useful than these services.
I froze my credit at the 3 bureaus. I figure this is enough of a stumbling block that they’ll move to the next person in the breach. I’d rather stop anything from happening than have a company claim they can clean it up once it happens.