Identity Protection: What Happens After Your Details Leak
Breached email addresses, reused passwords and a phone number scraped from an old account are enough to open credit in your name. Here is how the assembly works, how to tell whether it has already started, and what protection actually reverses.
Read the full pieceHave you been affected?
- A password you use elsewhere appeared in a public breach list
- Login alerts from cities or devices you do not recognise
- Password reset emails you never requested
- A credit check or account you did not apply for