{"id":439,"date":"2025-06-15T16:31:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T20:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2025-06-15T16:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T20:31:25","slug":"freeze-your-credit-thanks-to-att-and-tmobile-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Freeze your credit thanks to AT&#038;T and TMobile breaches!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another MAJOR pain in the ass breach of personal information!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-440\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-440\" src=\"https:\/\/macanix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/News-What-Is-Credit-Card-Freeze-300x200.webp\" alt=\"credit card in ice cube\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macanix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/News-What-Is-Credit-Card-Freeze-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/macanix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/News-What-Is-Credit-Card-Freeze-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/macanix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/News-What-Is-Credit-Card-Freeze-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/macanix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/News-What-Is-Credit-Card-Freeze-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/macanix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/News-What-Is-Credit-Card-Freeze-2048x1365.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit to Money dot com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just a heads up for those with ATT or TMobile accounts: They have had a massive breach of accounts and pwds, and SSN&#8230; and more.\\<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecuritynews.com\/86-million-att-customer-records-leaked\/\">ATT Breach info<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/computing\/online-security\/t-mobile-denies-new-data-breach-of-64-million-records-are-your-records-safe\">Tom&#8217;s Guide info about TMobile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Putting a freeze on your credit protects you from unauthorized criminals opening loans and creditcards. Plus who know what other scams.<\/p>\n<p>Check out freezing your credit reports and get accounts with the three main credit bureaus per Experian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.experian.com\/blogs\/ask-experian\/credit-education\/preventing-fraud\/security-freeze\/\">credit freeze info page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.experian.com\/help\/credit-freeze\/\">Experian<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transunion.com\/credit-freeze\">Trans Union<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.equifax.com\/personal\/credit-report-services\/credit-freeze\/\">Equifax<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*If you fill out for online, each bureau will want an account if you don&#8217;t have one, along with texting you codes or links to verify. Make sure to make an account and pwd with a password manager like 1Password, which allows notes for things like Pins or Secret Question Answer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another MAJOR pain in the ass breach of personal information! Just a heads up for those with ATT or TMobile accounts: They have had a massive breach of accounts and pwds, and SSN&#8230; and more.\\ ATT Breach info Tom&#8217;s Guide info about TMobile Putting a freeze on your credit protects you from unauthorized &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/macanix.com\/?p=439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freeze your credit thanks to AT&#038;T and TMobile breaches!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}