... and this is like the 7th data breach my data has been exposed in. The first one was back in like 2010 when the IRS was hacked and lost all my data and gave me 5 years of credit monitoring for free. There were three other smaller data breaches including my data. Then Experian lost all my data in 2017 and gave me like 3 years of free credit monitoring. And there have been several since then, too. Sheesh. (Again.)
The best part of the Experian monitoring was how shitty it was. It never picked up that we'd moved out of California, for example. The whole thing is such a dumpster fire. I had a phone call with my bank last week where I was like "hey, remember how you woke me up at 3am to ask if I was buying eight $100 gift cards at an Ikea in Perth? And I said TOTALLY NO? you never did pay me back for that." To which the bank said "uhhh apparently we never actually filed a claim either, despite the fact that you texted us back immediately and called us as soon as we opened. Uhm." You would think that the data integrity industry would be interested in maintaining our faith in data integrity.