LifeLock offers many services that help to protect members from becoming victims of identity theft. Our website has reported several data breaches that have taken place during the course of 2008 that have affected thousands upon thousands of people. Unsuspecting people who might have done what they needed to personally protect their own identities from being stolen. Not carrying their social security cards with them, not carrying any more credit cards than what they will actually use, being sure to protect their pin numbers from being copied and more. Yet, when they are required to give out their social security number to get credit approval, the agency with whom their information is registered might unexpectedly become a victim of a data breach due to poor computer security measures or due to employees who are not careful when it comes to keeping this kind of information private.

That leaves many thousands of people questioning whether they can still be protected once their information has been leaked. The fact is that no matter how careful you may personally be, your information can still be hacked or stolen. What can you do?

This is where the protection of LifeLock can prove to be more valuable than other identity theft protection services. LifeLock recently released a new service called eRecon. What this service was designed to do is protect the owner of a social security number from having their stolen information used against them. Many who purposely steal such information, do so to be able to sell it online. Law enforcement officials have found thousands of web sites online that buy this type of information. eRecon is a program that will search the internet for the social security number, driver’s license number and any other personal information that belongs to their members that is being sold on the internet.

“The availability of our information, for example on the web and the availability of our information to sell, is certainly driving the crime at an uncontrollable rate,” Wayne Ivey of LifeLock said. eRecon is “a web search program that is constantly looking for your information.” Once the program does find information belonging to a LifeLock member, that member is alerted by LifeLock so they can quickly change bank accounts, cancel credit cards and more.

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