Lastnight, while watching Download: The True Story of the Internet (once again, a great Television Series) they aired a commercial for LifeLock. I am sure you know who LifeLock is, the Tempe, AZ based company that sells credit monitoring services (or services that you can do all on your own for free) to supposedly prevent you from becoming an Identity Theft victim. If you are interested check out Phoenix New Times writer, Stephen Lemons’ blog to see all of the sketchy details about this company.
Regardless of how sketchy I think the company is or not, I have a bigger fear. LifeLock is claiming they now have over half a million customers all of whom have given over personal information that they should keep confidential if they really want to prevent their identity from being stolen. Information such as their Social Security and Phone Numbers, their address, personal credit histories, etc. What happens if someone hacks LifeLock’s servers and gains access to all of that info?
When TJ Maxx was hacked and it was the largest known theft of credit card information ever at 45.7 million stolen records. However this was just credit card info, LifeLock has access to much more info than just your credit card.
Normally I like to support Arizona based companies as much as possible, but I just cannot bring myself to support this one after learning their history and their line of business. In fact I have even refrained from inserting any links to the company in this story as to not assist in any search engine ratings.
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