re: How are you protecting your identity? Lifelock?

"So how do you protect yourself from this?"

i did not lock my credit at the major three credit services but flagged it high alert so i get informed of hard credit checks... to prevent / catch fake accounts made under my name...

my account now informs me of transactions on my phone..so i can see the few dollar test and certainly the large move and call my bank asap to stop it.

my bank has me on high watch...they allowed some very large single event movement of money. they thought i was just moving to a schwab investment account and citi investment account..... (btw bsnk covered my loss...which was significant)

i lowered the amount i keep in checking..keep more in savings which is harder to get stolen.

i have a security service now...it searches for me and also goes into the dark web searching and cleaning

i locked my ssn but i am retired so no need for others to run checks on it for jobs or loans