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    I applied to Old Navy 2 years ago (which is also Gap and Banana Republic). While I just got a letter saying that 2 laptops were stolen from their office 1 of which had all my information! Which was not encrypted which was "contraty to our aggreement with this vendor and against everything we stand for as a company". It has something I can do to get free credit monitoring and fraud assistance for the next 12 months so I'm going to do that. Should I be really worried? Has anything like this happened to anybody? Are there other things I can do to protect myself? All this and I didn't even get a job lol.


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    Call all the credit agencies immediately and place a fraud alert on your credit report.Tell them you have reason to believe your identity has been stolen. Then whenever anyone tries to open an account you will be notified first to verify it is you.

    Get copies of your cresit reports(all 3 of them) and look carefully to see if there is anything there you dont recognize. If there is..call them immediately and tell them you are a victim of identity theft.

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    ^^^

    Yeah the thing they gave me to register with gives me this thing to keep track of all my accounts.

    So just call up, visa, mastercard, ect?


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    It listing the 3 big credit agencies to call and place a fraud alert. I called the 1st one and placed a fraud alert and it said it notifies the other 2 so I don't have to.


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    I saw this on our local news (the laptops were stolen in San Francisco) a couple of weeks ago. Not that you shouldn't worry, but the theives were probably after the computers themselves and weren't aware of all of the information on them.

    But, follow Cameron's advice and the instructions on the letter and you should be a-okay. And save the letter in your records!!

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    Notify them yourself. Credit agencies dont always do what they are supposed to do. Better to err on the safe side.

    You shouldnt have to call your CC's though it certainly wouldnt hurt. You shouldbe more wrried about them opening fraudulent new accounts with your info. So check your reports for CC's and stuff you know you dont have...

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    speaking of Gap problems; a year ago i got their credit card and spent 60 dollars on it. they have never ONCE sent me a bill! and so they decided after my first late payment to start blowing up my phone badgering about paying the bill. but it was really weird, like they never identified themselves or never came out right and said they were with Gapcard. so i didnt want to pay over the phone, especially because they wanted my routing number and checking account number AND were going to charge my an extra 10 dollars to pay over the phone! they also didnt have my credit card number... like i said no way was i going to give them any information on me.
    so i tried to pay online. HAHA!!! their website is a JOKE! its never actually working, and then when you try to make a payment they refuse it! so they put something on my credit report saying that i never paid the bill, but i've been TRYING to for over a year! their website just never works and i shouldn't have to pay extra to pay a bill over the phone to someone who may or may not actually post the money to my account. and they dont let you pay in the stores (which would be soooo much easier!) finally, after 4 hours of calling them and trying to get their website to load and accept my information i FINALLY have paid the damn thing off!
    i will NEVER use that card again.

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    yes, you should be worried. a girl i go to school with had her info on that computer and her identity was stolen.

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    Seems to me thieves are going to get smarter about data they find on stolen computers.

    All they need to do is connect with someone who knows how to put it to use.

    Somehow I don't think that is very hard to do if the thief has found themselves in jail now and then.

    Jail is a regular criminal college and social network for malevolent types.

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    you can make sure the credit check companies put an alarm on anything bought by "you".. This way they can call to make sure all the transactions are accepted by. This ends within 6 months I think, so you should prob. get them to renew it at least once.
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    Quote Originally Posted by britt244 View Post
    yes, you should be worried. a girl i go to school with had her info on that computer and her identity was stolen.
    Beautiful. I guess I'll call the other 2 credit agencies tomorrow. Is there anything else they can do w/my SS # and shit besides putting me in debt?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Glamazon View Post
    I saw this on our local news (the laptops were stolen in San Francisco) a couple of weeks ago. Not that you shouldn't worry, but the theives were probably after the computers themselves and weren't aware of all of the information on them.

    But, follow Cameron's advice and the instructions on the letter and you should be a-okay. And save the letter in your records!!
    Yeah I'm def. keeping thay, so if I all of a sudden I'm burried in debt I'll have proof that all my info was stolen.


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