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.
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