What do you do if you are working with a vendor that requires you to give your social security number to get paid and then they tell you they’ve been hacked?
This happened to hundreds of bloggers working through PayPerPost.com
They received an email announcing the fact.
Many had their funds depleted with money sent to “erancans@hotmail.com“. Perhaps other emails were used. This person sent the money to this email account via PayPal hoping for easy cash.
PayPerPost detected the problem and worked with PayPal so that, to my knowledge, bloggers didn’t lose their money.
BUT every blogger hacked had their personal information exposed to this hacker.
Hopefully they just wanted a quick payday which they’ve now been deprived of.
And hopefully they’ll be caught in some country that knows how to really punish hackers … at least “Caning”!
But what do you do?
Hopefully you already have some form of identity theft protection as I do.
Even then (or especially if you don’t) I suggest you
1. Go to Experian.com
2. At the bottom center of the home page click “Fraud Alert”.
3. Start a 90 day Fraud Alert and make sure you must be phoned before credit is issued. They will notify the other credit agencies and all 3 are required to give you free copies of your credit report so you can take care of any suspicious activity.
4. Then, renew the alert every 90 days until your fairly certain your personal information isn’t going to be used against you!
To file a 7 year watch, you’ll have to provide a police report. I haven’t done that yet but just might. I’d really like to see this criminal punished!
So what are you waiting for?
What To Do If Your Accounts Get Hacked | Evolv on September 8th, 2011 at 6:57 pm
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