So, With my Venture card, I also have access to their Credit Wise monitor, or whatever its called from Cap1, and I get to log in Weekly to see my "report" and score (not fico). Anyways, yesterday, I get an alert from them saying they found my email addess on the Dark Web and to log in to view. Im like what? I didnt sign up for any "Dark Web" montioring with anyone.
So I log in, and view alerts, and I had two, one was a new acct reporting that I knew about, and the other was that my email adress was discovered in a Linkedin data breach. I remember being on Linkedin years ago like 9-10 yrs ago, and Im not on there anymore. I searched under current email address, and phone number and they couldnt find me anywhere, and told me "join". I searched for name, and I wasnt found either.
Im not too worried about it, but I thought it was weird that Cap1 is searching for me without my knowledge or permission on the "Dark Web". I read the T&C on Cap1's Creditwise thing, and no where did it say that youre also signing up for Dark Web monitoring. I called in to CS, and of course they are clueless and didnt know what I was even talking about.
For good measure though, I changed my password on current email address. Just thought Id mention it to see if anyone else had this bizarre experience with Cap1's creditwise.
I think when I was checking my CW details the other day I accidently signed up for this "searching" service as you describe. It's really very easy to accidentally do so. I didn't see the harm so i didn't set about un-joining.
I now look forward to them finding me something as equally interesting.
Both CW and incidently myFICO have found old information from years old breaches (Yahoo Mail is my main one that keeps popping up).
As been stated think majority of monitoring services have something like this now... got to keep adding features in an arms race for your dollars!
