Hi all,
I tried posting the following on Facebook, but not all of the links showed up in my post, so I took it down. While this isn't specifically related to JAWS, iPhones and other assistive technologies, I felt that it was important enough to spread the news far and wide through a couple of e-mail list. Feel free to continue spreading it far and wide. No flames, please. I don't mean to increase anyone's paranoia, but on the news a couple of days ago I heard about a massive data breach; nearly 3 billion records containing people's names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers are now available on the Internet and the dark web. Rich De Muro, who does a Saturday tech show on Los Angeles radio station KFI AM and a regular spot on KTLA channel 5, also publishes a weekly newsletter which I get in my inbox every Saturday morning. Below is an excerpt from this week's newsletter pertaining to the data breach. It contains links to a place where you can read about the breach and check to see if your information was breached. Here's the excerpt from the newsletter. Cybersecurity Corner This week's big story is the <https://substack.com/redirect/6eb884d8-8a2e-4af9-a65a-1ab4a63f0b61?j=eyJ1Ij oiOGZ6aDgifQ.OLQkXK5uSQUIoGnuAvSjYkNmObIku65t4uL0mr4Ldzo> data breach, which contains nearly 3 billion records.. including names, addresses, dates of birth, and, unfortunately, social security numbers. A cybersecurity firm named Pentester set up a special site where you can enter your name and year of birth to see if your information is in the dump. <https://substack.com/redirect/75ad0b4f-1408-4a31-a59e-861b0dbc17b0?j=eyJ1Ij oiOGZ6aDgifQ.OLQkXK5uSQUIoGnuAvSjYkNmObIku65t4uL0mr4Ldzo> Check for your SSN The bad news: it probably is, and you might want to freeze your credit reports. I did and found the process to be quite easy: you create a login, bypass all the nonsense they try to sell you on and tap Freeze. You can also unfreeze in a tap. While your report is frozen, no one can open a new account in your name. Here are the direct links for <https://substack.com/redirect/36d73f8a-86c9-49b6-b535-1b0572f32a36?j=eyJ1Ij oiOGZ6aDgifQ.OLQkXK5uSQUIoGnuAvSjYkNmObIku65t4uL0mr4Ldzo> Experian, <https://substack.com/redirect/c242ed1a-8cf6-49d1-abb9-ee10be6d07cc?j=eyJ1Ij oiOGZ6aDgifQ.OLQkXK5uSQUIoGnuAvSjYkNmObIku65t4uL0mr4Ldzo> TransUnion, and <https://substack.com/redirect/4d5f5b1f-75b8-40c4-9715-660d2fdcefc5?j=eyJ1Ij oiOGZ6aDgifQ.OLQkXK5uSQUIoGnuAvSjYkNmObIku65t4uL0mr4Ldzo> Equifax. A listener called into Rich's tech show and passed on a tip regarding another place worth looking into. It is https://www.chexsystems.com/ -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/000601daf0ff%24196b7390%244c425ab0%24%40gmail.com.
