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2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed (www.tomsguide.com)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (11 children)

I tried freezing my credit but I think transunion and equifax wouldn't let me create an account for some reason. Asking me to call them. Anybody else running into the same issue?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Are you proxying or using a VPN to access their site. I often see IP blocks, even if that proxy is a simple socks proxy to a VPS i own. Many VPS subnets are blocked/restricted wholesale, as are many of the big VPN endpoint ips.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I use VPN. Maybe I should jump to random countries or maybe turn it off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That will 100% cause it with the 3 larger creditors (where fraud targeting is likely one of the highest..)

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