Tampa, Florida — There’s an important consumer alert for some 15 million T-Mobile wireless customers. Their Social Security numbers, home addresses, birth dates and other personal information were hacked through Experian which is one of the three largest credit reporting agencies around. Cyber experts tell 10 News it’s proof that hackers are persistent and you have to be too when it comes to protecting yourself.
Thomas Starkey has been a T-Mobile customer for the past three years and says he’s stunned over the latest breach. Starkey says, “I don’t need my credit affected in no type of way especially when it comes to a hacker.” He says even more upsetting is that T-Mobile didn’t notify him. He says, “It seems like every time you come in they should let you know what’s going on.”
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Sri Sridharan, managing director and chief operating officer at USF’s Florida Center for Cybersecurity, says hackers are patient and take their time peeling back layers and layers of security. Sridharan says, “The plain truth is there is no such thing as a completely non vulnerable system. They keep trying for months and years…and then bam…they’re able to get through all those fortresses that people have built.”
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Sridharan says there’s one important thing you can do to protect yourself today no matter who you do business with. He says, “When you subscribe to services like Experian and Equifax and others they give you the tools to be able to lock up your credit history and no one can access your credit history, or apply for a credit card account and open it under their name pretending that they are you.”
That’s critical for Starkey who just bought a home with his wife. He says, “I just built my credit up in order to buy my home you know so it’s a big concern for me personally.”
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