Tech How much personal info can a hacker get?

AlovesJ

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Aug 2, 2008
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My Hotmail account was hacked. I realized pretty quickly, and changed my password. I was going through my email though, and realized I had a bank pre-qualification for a home loan saved in my sent emails. It had our social security numbers on it. What should I do?
 
Google "credit bureau fraud alert" and consider putting fraud alerts on your credit reports with the 3 agencies. It will make it harder for you to open any new credit accounts for a period of time.

You may need to do more than this.
 
Thanks. It just happened to come at a really bad time. I did Google and read some information about putting fraud alerts even a credit freeze on our social security numbers. The only problem is we are waiting any day now to take a bid for our house to the bank. I called the bank to see if they already ran our credit so I can put a freeze on our credit report. If it weren't for that I'd do the credit freeze, we have all the credit cards we're ever going to need.