Identity Theft Related Question - What Should I Do?

So on Friday afternoon, I get an automated message from the school board I work for saying that a student at my school hacked into employee records and has our names, addresses, phone numbers, socials, etc. They said he is "cooperating with police."

Now - I'm really pizzed that our frigging principal didn't tell us anything and that's another story. I will be emailing the union head tomorrow, as I sure many will be, to find out exactly what info this person(s) has and what is being done.

What should I do? Or what should we as a faculty be demanding? Should we be asking that they pay for one of those identity theft watch programs for each of us? Should I just be checking my accounts religiously? I don't know exactly what they got yet, but I'm figuring if they have socials and birthdates, they could open credit cards?

Please tell me what you think!

Thanks!

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I would think that they should be paying a few months worth of identity theft program. THis happened to us when we were banking at North fork bank. THe bank paid for i think like 6 months of the identity theft program through the 3 major credit beureas, experian, transunion and exuifax. THis way they have it on alert about what happened and your credit is being monitored. Good Luck

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Something similar happened to a friend of mine and the company they worked for paid for credit monitoring for all employees for 1 year. I would also notify your bank, credit cards, and even credit bureaus on your own. It's better to be safe than sorry.

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My first thought was make them pay for an identity theft service

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Yes, you can call one credit bureau and put a freud alert on it for 90 days. They contact the other 2 for you.

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Posted by Reese1106

Something similar happened to a friend of mine and the company they worked for paid for credit monitoring for all employees for 1 year. I would also notify your bank, credit cards, and even credit bureaus on your own. It's better to be safe than sorry.

How do I officially notify the credit bureaus? Just call them?

Found out it wasn't just my school - was entire human resources info for my school board - that's almost 37,000 employees!!!!!!

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Thank you!

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They should definitely pay for credit monitoring. This happened to DH- someone hacked into his job's personell files. The company paid for 2 years of credit monitoring.

So sorry Miki!

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They should be paying for the id theft watch without a doubt.
They also should be telling you what information they got, maybe not on an individual basis but most def blanket it, so that everyone is aware of the situation.
HTH