Freeze Your Credit
December 5, 2006 by Karen Weideman
Filed under financial matters, odds and ends
This past year my husband received a letter from the federal 
government informing us that veteran information was stolen. Later we received a letter telling us that although the information was stolen, it was recovered and nothing was compromised. I’m not so sure how much of that I believe.
There have been 788 incidents of lost information by the federal government. Nineteen agencies have lost information on the general public and on federal employees. The Commerce Department has lost more than 1,000 laptops used by the U.S. Census Bureau.
So, how safe do you think your information is?????? I’m not so sure myself. Pretty scary when you think about it. In 23 states, it is possible to freeze your credit. Even if nothing suspicious is going on, this might be good advice for you to follow. To check the list for your state, click here and then view the information on consumersunion.org.
Thanks for the tip, Clark.
