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UnitedHealth Data Breach: Ep 2814 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Challenges of Faith radio program. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Garry McCann's Like Acknowledged God and you are listeners one
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  Speaker 1: episode two thousand, eight hundred and fourteen. Did you hear
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  Speaker 1: that the Federal Drug Administration approves pain killer that's designed
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  Speaker 1: to eliminate the risk of addiction that's associated with opiates?
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear about it? You sure? Federal officials approved
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  Speaker 1: a new type of pain peel, designed to eliminate the
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  Speaker 1: risks of addiction an overdose associated with opiate medications like
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  Speaker 1: Kodin and oxycoton. The US Food and Drug Administration said
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  Speaker 1: it approved vertexts Pharmaceuticals Journets journal vs. Jou are NAVX
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  Speaker 1: with short term pain that often follows surgery or injuries.
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  Speaker 1: It's the first new pharmaceutical approach to treating pain in
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  Speaker 1: more than twenty years, offering an alternative to both opiates
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  Speaker 1: and over the counter medications like i'd be propen. But
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  Speaker 1: the medications modest effectiveness and lengthy development process underscore the
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  Speaker 1: challenges of finding new ways to manage pain. To manage pain,
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  Speaker 1: studies in more than eight hundred and seventy patients with
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  Speaker 1: acute pain due to foot and stomach surgeries showed Vertexas
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  Speaker 1: drugs provided more relief than a dummy pill, but did
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  Speaker 1: not perform a common opiates combination pill. It's not a
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  Speaker 1: slam dunk on effectiveness. That might go Shoe of the
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  Speaker 1: Male Clinic, a pharmacists and pain medicine expert who was
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  Speaker 1: not involved in the research. But it is a slam
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  Speaker 1: dunk in that it is very different pathway and mechanism
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  Speaker 1: of action. So I think that shows a lot of promise.
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  Speaker 1: The new drug will carry a liss price of fifteen
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  Speaker 1: dollars and fifty cents per pill, making it many times
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  Speaker 1: more expensive than comparable opiates, which are often available as
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  Speaker 1: generics for one dollar or less. Vertext began recessing the
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  Speaker 1: drug in two thousands when overdoses were rockinging upward, principally
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  Speaker 1: driven by masks prescribing of opiate pain killers for common
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  Speaker 1: elements like arthritis and back pain. Prescriptions have fallen sharpened
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  Speaker 1: in the last decade, and the current way of the
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  Speaker 1: opiate epidemic is mainly due to illicit fitnol, not pharmaceutical medicines.
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  Speaker 1: Opius reduce pain by binding to receptors in the brain
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  Speaker 1: that receive nerve signals from different parts of the body.
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  Speaker 1: Those chemical interactions also give rise to opious addictive effects.
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  Speaker 1: Vertext drugs work differently blocking proteins that trigger pain signals
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  Speaker 1: that are later sent to the brain. In trying to
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  Speaker 1: develop medicines that don't have the addictive risks of opium medicines,
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  Speaker 1: a key factor is working to block pain signaling it
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  Speaker 1: before it gets to the brain. Vertex, as doctor David
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  Speaker 1: off Schuler told the Associated Press last year, commonly reported
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  Speaker 1: side effects with the drug with nasia constipation, it rash,
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  Speaker 1: and headache. The new medication has side effect profiles that
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  Speaker 1: are inherently not only not only different, but don't involve
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  Speaker 1: the risks of substance abuse and other key side effects
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  Speaker 1: associated with opiates, said doctor Charles Arkiff of the Albany
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  Speaker 1: Medical Center, who consulted for Vertict on the drugs development.
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  Speaker 1: The initial concept of focus to focus on pain signaling
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  Speaker 1: proteins came out of research involving people with a rare
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  Speaker 1: hereditary condition that causes insensitivity to pain. Did you hear
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  Speaker 1: about any of that? Did you hear that United healths
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  Speaker 1: Change health Care Unit suffered a data break? Women? I
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  Speaker 1: want you to pay attention. I know you are in
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  Speaker 1: February twenty twenty four, you said, Gariam, what do I
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  Speaker 1: need to pay attention for it? You're letting us know. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, hold on. It is now February of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. This occurred in February twenty twenty four. Initially
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  Speaker 1: reported to have affected around one hundred million individuals, the
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  Speaker 1: United States health insurance giant has now has now revealed
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  Speaker 1: that the actual numbers significantly higher one hundred and ninety million.
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  Speaker 1: This makes it the largest breach of medical data in
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  Speaker 1: US history, affecting nearly half of the country's population. Did
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  Speaker 1: you hear about it? A breach this magnitude can have
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  Speaker 1: devastating consequences for the American people, as malicious actors could
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  Speaker 1: exploit the data for a range of attacks if it
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  Speaker 1: finds its way to the dark web. United health Care
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  Speaker 1: confirmed on Friday, January twenty four, of twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: that the ransomware attack on has Changed health Care Unit
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  Speaker 1: affected approximately one hundred ninety million people in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: The company had previously estimated the number of affected individuals
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  Speaker 1: to be around one hundred million. In this preliminary analysis,
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  Speaker 1: filed with the Office for Civil Rights, a division of
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  Speaker 1: the United States Department of Health and Human Services that
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  Speaker 1: investigates data breachers. United helps state it that the majority
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  Speaker 1: of those impact that have already been notified. Have you
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  Speaker 1: been notified? Have you? Have you been notified either directly
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  Speaker 1: or through substitute notice. The final tally of affected individuals
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  Speaker 1: will be confirmed and submitted to the Office of Civil
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  Speaker 1: Rights at a later date. The company tells cyber Guy
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  Speaker 1: it is not aware of any misuse of individual's information
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  Speaker 1: as a result of this incident, has not seen electronic
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  Speaker 1: medical record databases appear in the data during the analysis. However,
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  Speaker 1: United Health did not disclose when it became aware of
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  Speaker 1: Let me repeat, United Health did not disclose when it
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  Speaker 1: became aware of the additional ninety million victims. How the
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  Speaker 1: revised figure was determined. Of what change has led to
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  Speaker 1: the updated number? My question is did you hear about
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  Speaker 1: any of this? Gmail warns users to secure accounts after
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  Speaker 1: malicious AI AI had confirmed sophisticated scams fueled by artificial
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  Speaker 1: intelligence are threatening the security of billions of Gmail users.
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  Speaker 1: Security warning issued as AI powered phone calls mimicking human
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  Speaker 1: voices have become incredibly realistic. A new report from Forbes
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  Speaker 1: warned that the email services two point five billion users
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  Speaker 1: could be targeted by malicious actors that are employing AI
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  Speaker 1: to do customers into handling over credentials. The outlet reported
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  Speaker 1: that cyber criminals deploy phone calls posing as Google support,
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  Speaker 1: complete with the caller ID that looks convincingly legitimate. The
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  Speaker 1: technician might say the person's account has been compromised in
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  Speaker 1: some way, or that they are attempting an account recovery.
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  Speaker 1: The so called support agent will then send an email
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  Speaker 1: to the user's email account from what appears from what
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  Speaker 1: appears to be a legitimate Google email address to confirm
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  Speaker 1: the account was compromised and receive a code to recover
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  Speaker 1: the account. She sounded like a real engineer, the connection
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  Speaker 1: was super clear, and she had an American accent, latter
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  Speaker 1: told Forbes. Despite how real the voice on the other
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  Speaker 1: end of the line sounds, however, it is a scheme.
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  Speaker 1: It is a trick to trick customers into handling over
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  Speaker 1: precious log and information to gain access to their accoun
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  Speaker 1: Gary Tan, the founder of venture capital firm y Combinator,
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  Speaker 1: issued a public service announcement on X after receiving convincing
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  Speaker 1: phishing emails and phone calls. They claim to be checking
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  Speaker 1: that you are alive and that they should disregard a
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  Speaker 1: death certificate. Foul, they claimed. The family members recovering your account.
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  Speaker 1: He wrote, it's a pretty elaborate ploy to get you
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  Speaker 1: to allow password recovery. Similarly, sam Mitrovic, a Microsoft Solutions consultant,
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  Speaker 1: experienced the same phenomenon months ago. According to a blog
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  Speaker 1: post written at that time, he recalled receiving a Google
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  Speaker 1: account recovery attempt notification, followed less than an hour later
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  Speaker 1: by a phone call. It looked like it was from
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  Speaker 1: the tech company, but he ignored it. A week later,
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  Speaker 1: it happened again. This time he picked up. It's an
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  Speaker 1: American voice, very polite and professional. The number is Australian,
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  Speaker 1: he recounted, adding that he verified the phone number on
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  Speaker 1: an official Google support page. He introduces himself and said
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  Speaker 1: that there's a suspicious activity on my account. He asked
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  Speaker 1: if I'm traveling, When I said no, He asked if
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  Speaker 1: I logged in from Germany, to which I replied no.
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  Speaker 1: Then the agent informs retro vict that someone has had
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  Speaker 1: access to my account for a week and was offering
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  Speaker 1: to help him secure it, but luckily he knows that
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  Speaker 1: the follow up email sent by the caller was a
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  Speaker 1: spoofed email address and stopped answering. The caller said hello.
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  Speaker 1: I ignored it, then about ten seconds later then said
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  Speaker 1: hello again. He described at this point I released it
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  Speaker 1: as an AI voice as the pronunciation of spacing were
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  Speaker 1: too perfect. Upon double checking his log in sessions in
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  Speaker 1: his Google account settings, he saw that only the lag
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  Speaker 1: ins were his own, despite many red flags of On
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  Speaker 1: closer inspection, this call seemed legitimate enough to trick many people.
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  Speaker 1: He worn the scams are getting increasingly sophisticated, more convincing
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  Speaker 1: than are deployed at ever larger scale. To protect yourself
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  Speaker 1: and your accounts from malicious actors, Forbes advised turning on
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  Speaker 1: Advanced Protection, which, according to a Google sparks person, takes
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  Speaker 1: extra steps to verify your identity with the use of
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  Speaker 1: past keys and smart keys to keep your accounts secure
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  Speaker 1: even if hackers have your credentials. Did you hear about
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  Speaker 1: any of this or have you cure a Crown consumer
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  Speaker 1: education specialists at the Federal Trade Commission, she wrote New Year,
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  Speaker 1: New Chance to think about ways to protect yourself from
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  Speaker 1: identity there what's one way freeze your credit You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to wait for your social Security number or other
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  Speaker 1: information to be exposed in a data breach or misused
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  Speaker 1: by an identity thief to benefit from a credit freeze.
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  Speaker 1: She writes here how a credit freeze can protect you.
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  Speaker 1: It stops lenders from getting into your credit report, because
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  Speaker 1: lenders usually won't give you credit if they can't review
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  Speaker 1: your credit report. A freeze can help stop what be
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  Speaker 1: identity thieves from opening new accounts in your name. Anyone
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  Speaker 1: can place a credit free They're free to place and lift,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't affect your credit score. To place a
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  Speaker 1: credit freeze, contact all three credit bureaus Equifax, Experience, and TransUnion.
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  Speaker 1: Credit freezes last until you lift them, so if somebody
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  Speaker 1: needs to check your credit, like if you're applying for
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  Speaker 1: a new credit card or car loan, you need to
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  Speaker 1: contact all three bureaus again, or if you know which
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  Speaker 1: viureau of lender will use, you can lift for only
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  Speaker 1: that one for free. You may have also heard about
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  Speaker 1: fraud alerts, which are another useful tool against identities theft.
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  Speaker 1: Learn about the difference between credit freezes and fraud alerts. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: if you think someone's stolen your identity, go to Identity
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  Speaker 1: Theft Gov the report would happen, and get an individualized
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  Speaker 1: recovery plan with next steps. And again, if you've heard
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  Speaker 1: me mentioned many times how I've been hacked and individuals
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  Speaker 1: have stolen my identity and they keep trying to and
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  Speaker 1: keep doing it. A criminal is gonna do whatever it
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  Speaker 1: takes to make you a victim. And I know, I
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  Speaker 1: know there are those of you who are of the
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  Speaker 1: belief that this person is not is not, is not. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let me repeat this story. You don't mind, do you?
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  Speaker 1: While wrapping up, there was an individual who stole twenty
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  Speaker 1: five dollars. There was another individual who stole twenty five
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. The judge called both of them a thief.
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  Speaker 1: The one individual who stole twenty five thousand dollars told
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  Speaker 1: the judge that I'm not a thief. I'm an embezzler.
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  Speaker 1: The judge told that that person who stole twenty five
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars, who made it clear that they were not
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  Speaker 1: a thief, that they were an embezzler. The judge told them,
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  Speaker 1: you are a thief. In John Chapter one, in the
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  Speaker 1: beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
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  Speaker 1: and the Word was God. He was in the beginning
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  Speaker 1: with God. All things were made through him, and without
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  Speaker 1: him nothing was made that was made. And him was life,
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  Speaker 1: and the life was the light of men. And the
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  Speaker 1: light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not
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  Speaker 1: comprehend that