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If you haven't frozen your credit with the three credit bureaus (whether you were part of the OPM hack or not!) you really should.

Actually from a fraud standpoint Experian was much worse. Whomever hacked OPM was probably a state actor and more interested in the data for other purposes.

Credit monitoring is useless. It just lets you know earlier (maybe) that you have a mess to clean up. What should be criminal is the utter lack of real security/identity validation from banks, financial institutions, the IRS, etc. that causes the mess after these breaches.




> Actually from a fraud standpoint Experian was much worse.

I think you meant Equifax.


(not the op but) Experian was hacked too.




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