mbauman

Is anyone else struggling to put freezes on their kids’ credit after the #ChangeHealthcare security failure?

A company — of whom I’m not a customer and didn’t even know of — handled my 2 & 6 year old’s SSNs and PII negligently, and so now the best option I have (I guess?) is to send their birth certificates & SSN cards (and mine) to 4 other companies of whom I’m also *not a customer*. The only reason I can is due to the FCRA.

What a brilliant example of American Corporate Capitalism at work.

May 21, 2025 at 1:27amWeb
Show threadmbaumanMay 21, 2025

I sent eight letters certified mail to the credit agencies a month ago, and so far I’ve gotten five responses:

- two agencies gave me ten digit pins that I’ll need to store for 15+ years I guess
- one agency said I didn’t give the right information (even though I sent all the same copies to everyone)
- one agency misspelled my daughters name wildly (think “Jjane”) everywhere. So did that work? Who knows.
- still waiting for three more responses even though they sent one for the other kid