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8 Tips to Keep Your Identity Safe This Holiday Season
- Cyber Week sales are expected to reach $311 billion worldwide leading into the holiday season, which is also a time of increased cyber crime, with hackers buying and selling personally identifiable information (PII) on the dark web.
- To protect your sensitive data, consider freezing your credit, checking credit reports regularly, safeguarding your Social Security number, and being cautious of phishing, vishing, and smishing attempts.
- Using strong passwords and multi-factor authentication, shredding documents with PII, and using a digital wallet for payment transactions are other important ways to protect yourself from identity theft during the holiday season.
- Multi-factor authentication, which asks for two or more pieces of evidence to verify a user's identity, should be enabled on important online accounts like email, finance, and social media.
- Stronger forms of authentication, like an authentication app, are preferable, but email and text can be used as a second factor if necessary.
- While trying to protect yourself from identity theft is important during the holiday season, taking these precautions can be useful year-round.
- If you suspect your identity has been stolen, it's important to act quickly and create a recovery plan. Start by visiting the FTC's Identity Theft website to report the theft.
- If you ever receive a suspicious email or suspect your Salesforce credentials have been compromised, report (and forward) this immediately to [email protected].
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