I'm sure a bunch of you have seen this by now.
It started sometime between 4 and 6 years ago I think.
Notices being sent out from all sorts of banks, creditors, service providers, organizations and even county officials claiming they've been hacked (had a security breach) and therefore some of your personal information may have been exposed, followed by an offer of a couple years of complimentary enrollment in an identity-theft protection service.
It's almost the exact same notice every time, almost word-for-word.
The notices have the return address and letterheads/logos of the actual entity they're claiming to be.
It's very interesting.
Anyone figured out what's going on or seen any official reporting on this?
I have hypotheses on what the agenda/scam is but I don't want to pollute anyone else's assessment with my own.
It's just that more and more places are asking for more and more of your data and more and more places are getting hacked.
The identity theft protection service doesn't even do anything, btw, just give you notifications for new lines of credit or some such. If you have somebody using your SSN they don't do anything to actually help. I know from personal experience how this works.