re: Social security number compromised in AT&T breach

ETA: like the previous poster, I haven't used an AT&T product or service for more than 20 years yet I got the same notice that my SSN and other private data was published online after their breach.

So I froze my credit, something I should have done years ago.

It took probably 20 minutes to create free accounts at Experian, TransUnion and Equifax to freeze my credit and prevent anyone else from using that breached data.

Here are the free links from NerdWallet to freeze your credit.

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I learned that Experian seem like real slimeballs.

24 hours after I froze my credit, they sent me an email with a login link saying "don't forget to START your security freeze."

Their email link gave no free way to confirm the previous day's credit freeze, only options to buy their paid monitoring subscriptions.

So I logged in again with the free URL above from NerdWallet, using the credentials I created the day before, and found that my credit was frozen as I configured it.

Scary to think people this sleazy control your credit report.