If your personal data has been compromised, you often won't learn about it until T-Mobile, Facebook, Marriott, DoorDash, LinkedIn or any other company you're trusted with your information notifies you about a data breach. By that time your birthday, hydraclubbioknikokex7njhwuahc2l67lfiz7z36md2jvopda7nchid.onion Social Security number, credit card number, health records or other data will have already been exposed or stolen.
Any stolen personal information that leads data thieves to your identity can let hackers do everything from making purchases and opening up credit accounts in your name, to filing for your tax refunds and making medical claims, all posing as you. What's worse, billions of these hacked login credentials are available on the dark web, neatly packaged for hackers to easily download for free.
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