ID Theft
credit monitoring ?
What it means " credit monitoring ? I got this phrase from a piece of news regarding the personal information for millions of veterans on a laptop computer being stolen.
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- You can notify the various credit reporting agencies to flag your account (in case of identity theft). Or you can buy the service that watches your account for any unusual activities.
- In addition to the answer before mine, you can also monitor your own credit by requesting your free annual report from each of the three credit reporting agencies. Since the article you were reading was warning about information loss related to possible identity theft, the person using the phrase "credit monitoring" was probably trying to tell the individuals whose information was lost, that they need to make sure no one else is using their identity by checking their credit report regularly.
