Major Financial Companies Hacked: Here's What to Do

After 10 million accounts were locked over a month ago, now we have more details to understand the scope of who was all affected. This video includes a quick explanation of the recommended actions we can take to protect our identities and our credit. ⏱Handy Timeline: 0:00 Hacked 1:04 History of the collapse 1:31 Yotta updates 2:07 First notice of hacking 2:33 Yotta notifying us 3:08 What we should do about this 9:38 Links for you 9:58 Summary of difference between freeze and alert 10:33 See you tomorrow! Links mentioned in this video: Yotta update page: https://www.withyotta.com/payment-processing-updates?utm_campaign=SendGrid+2.18.20+Update+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=SendGrid Specialty Credit Bureau's: https://www.consumer-action.org/downloads/english/specialty_report_directory.pdf?utm_campaign=SendGrid+2.18.20+Update+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=SendGrid FTC site about credit freezes and fraud alerts: https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-know-about-credit-freezes-and-fraud-alerts usa.gov site about credit freezes and fraud alerts: https://www.usa.gov/credit-freeze Experian: https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/how-to-add-a-security-freeze-to-your-credit-file/ TransUnion: https://service.transunion.com/dss/login.page Equifax: https://www.equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services/credit-freeze/ NerdWallet article summarizing freezes: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/how-to-freeze-credit ===== 📗Easily learn all the essentials of stock market investing in a single afternoon: https://brendan-s-site-0fd7.thinkific.com/courses/Investing Digital Products I made for you: Relationship Money Plan: https://brendanevan.gumroad.com/l/RelationshipMoneyPlan Net Worth Tracker: https://brendanevan.gumroad.com/l/ZCeXo Budgeting Spreadsheet: https://brendanevan.gumroad.com/l/BrendanBudget2022 New Investor Checklist: https://brendanevan.gumroad.com/l/InvestingChecklist Better Goal Template: https://brendanevan.gumroad.com/l/Goals Memento Mori Life Grid: https://brendanevan.gumroad.com/l/BFAM-MementoMori My Free Newsletter: https://brendanevan.substack.com/ My Early Retirement Projection Spreadsheet: https://brendanevan.gumroad.com/l/RetireEarly ===== 🕰Make sure to check the time stamps to navigate to the most interesting parts easily. 🏎💨If I am talking too slowly, just click on the video settings option and look for “Playback Speed”. Changing this to 1.25x or 1.5x can make the video flow a little better if you want to pick up the pace! #BrendanEvan Disclaimer: Any financial or investing-related topics discussed on this channel are not from a professional investment advisor and are not financial advice for you. This is for entertainment and inspirational purposes only. My opinions are not reflective of the companies mentioned in the video. Also please know that many of the links I have in video descriptions like this one are affiliate links which means I may be compensated by the company whom you do business with at no extra expense to you. Thank you for your support!