In February of 2007, the then named Community College of Southern Nevada had a server that was broken into. This server contained the Social Security Numbers, Full Names, and date of births of about 100,000 current and former students. They decided that May 2007 was a good time to notify everyone about the problem. I am one of the 100,000 people who received a letter regarding this.
I’d encourage anyone who went there (or, like me, still goes there), to contact the credit reporting companies and put Fraud Alert on their accounts. Although the College didn’t suggest it, I think they should have.
You can call 1-888-766-0008 (Equifax) and they’ll forward the Fraud Alert to the other two (Transunion and Experian) for you. You can also go to Experian’s website at experian.com/initialfraudreport and do the request online. Again, they’ll forward the information to the other two companies. If you (or anyone else) tries to get credit with your info over the next 90 days, the report is suppose to tell them to call you at the number(s) you give during the fraud alert registration and also informs the company that you may have been the victim of fraud.
I’d also recommend going to www.OptOutPrescreen.com and get your name off the credit card offers list.
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I was just looking through some old posts, and saw this one. I didn’t even know that there was a way that you can have your name removed from the “preapproved” lists. My wife and I both went and submitted out information.