I am an EU citizen and I was informed that my EURAXESS account was breached. They informed me that while the password wasn’t stolen, all of my personal data including addresses, IDs from the CV was stolen and made available on some website.
They say that they’re working towards making the site secure, etc., but I know that my personal info is out there. They have even told me to watch out for scams and phishing attempts over the next few months to come.
I am a bit shaken. Please tell me what steps I can take to gain back some control over this situation?
You can’t do anything besides the usual precautions. I get a notice of a data breach in the mail like every 3 weeks from companies who got hacked. It’s fucking ridiculous. My social security number has probably been leaked like 900 times. All of ours has
All you can do is:
I don’t know if it’s the same in the EU, but this is the single biggest thing you can do to protect yourself (I mean besides passwords and such). Freezing your credit makes it much hard to open a line of credit under your name like a random store credit card or such. Please try to do this as soon as you can.
Yep. Every single American should do this by default. It’s a pain in the ass when you need to have your credit pulled (car/home purchase, some utilities, new job doing credit check) but the moderate inconvenience is worth the security.
Alias emails. Duck email etc. Duckduckgo extension allows you to create one-click email specifically for whatever bullshit at hand that you can one-click delete later.
I would add password manager to that list.
Thx. Added! Just curious - which password manager do you prefer?
Shove this verification can up your ass, boy
Please drink a verification can.