I got a Myfico black market alert!

[TheGeneralLee862]

I got a black market website surviellance alert and it all it says is My email address and a some garbled letters and numbers for password so what should i do?

[Anonymous]

I have no clue, but I will be following your thread...

[Anonymous]

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@TheGeneralLee862 wrote:

I got a black market website surviellance alert and it all it says is My email address and a some garbled letters and numbers for password so what should i do?

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I would change all your passwords for any credit or bank site and also consider freezing the three major credit bureaus at least temporarily.  While the alert may not mean a lot it also could be an indicator that you're at risk for identity theft or some other nonsense that you don't want.

[Berk]

It should tell you what site your info was obtained from. At any rate I know that Life Lock's alerts do. I've had two in the past three months. Both were tied to major data breaches. I just changed the passwords for those accounts and my bank account. So far so good.

[Anonymous]

I received this alert as well a couple weeks ago like you descibe. Will be watching this thread.

[TheGeneralLee862]

for some reason it does not tell me what site it is from or anything just my email?

[Anonymous]

Interesting to see this because I got an email from myFICO in the middle of the night about a similar thing.

All the alert says on the site is the creation date of yesterday, and part of one of my old email addresses (not one that has ever been used for anything financial mind you).

I will make my own thread so I don't derail yours, but will watch both.

[Anonymous]

As someone else stated, just change your passwords make sure it's nowhere close to the ones you've using. It seems time consuming but I've had that alert a few times over the past 4 years from various monitoring services and from my own personal experience, it was usually tied to a data breach and then a data dump done from a server. Just had one recently on LinkedIn, Wendys, Walmart, my Amazon account...So because I tend to duplicate stuff I just use a generator now to come up with passwords, cause I was lazy and won't change them for years.

[Anonymous]

Oh and I did make sure to remove any saved credit cards from online retailers, because of it. I felt I was taking an extra step in case I was hacked/data breached again

[TheGeneralLee862]

I just got another alert again this time I recognized the password but unsure of what account it is that is getting this!