So yesterday I get a letter in the mail from my Company. A third party data processor employed by the insurence company that MY company uses got robbed of a few backup tapes. Lucky me, I was one of the 300 people whose name, address, SSN, and Birthday were on those tapes. They said that the tapes were "difficult if not impossible to read" and "required special equipment to access." Whatever, that probably means that they are some kind of freaking old mainframe tape that any hole in the wall data processing company can transfer off.
In any case, I now have fraud alerts with all 3 credit reporting agencies, and the insurence company is paying for one year of the premuin level of identity theft protection from Experian. /sarcasm The premuim service is great! Now If someone steals my identity experian will send me an email letting me know. /sarcasm
CHANGE YOUR SSN - HIDE IN TIJUANA - AVOID THE BLACK HELIKOPTERS
(honestly... this sucks. i want someone to steal my SSN - they can have my credit, it would be awesome)
See, according to your neighbor you should have identity theft already since all your garbage wound up on his lawn while you were on your honeymoon! 8-P