We all love a good getaway, and as we look ahead to spring and summer, most of us are already planning our next vacation. To do that, we’ll tap one of the many online travel agencies out there to help us organize our plans. Only now, some travel-goers may have to stop trip planning so they can start planning for credit monitoring, as one of the most popular travel agencies, Orbitz.com, was hit with a data breach that may have exposed as many as 880,000 payment cards.
The online travel agency reported two separate data disclosures, as an attacker may have accessed customers’ personal information shared on Orbitz.com and a handful of associated websites between Jan. 1, 2016 between Dec. 22, 2016.
What’s more – in addition to the payment cards, hackers may have also stolen customers’ full name, date of birth, phone number, email address, physical and/or billing address and gender information. Now, with all this personal information potentially out in the open, it’s important affected customers start thinking about protecting their personal identities. To do just that, follow these tips:
- Regularly review your online account info. Things like regularly reviewing transactions online and making sure account contact info hasn’t changed are good for keeping tabs on anyone trying to hijack your account.
- Set up an alert. If you know there’s a chance your personal data has been compromised, place a fraud alert on your credit so that any new or recent requests undergo scrutiny. This also entitles you to extra copies of your credit report so you can check for anything suspicious. If you find an account you did not open, report it to the police or Federal Trade Commission, as well as the creditor involved so you can close the fraudulent account.
- Consider an identity theft protection solution. With this breach and others before it, consumers are faced with the possibility of identity theft. McAfee Identity Theft Protection allows users to take a proactive approach to protecting their identities with personal and financial monitoring and recovery tools to help keep their identities personal and secured.
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