Lockdown your credit at the 3 credit bureaus (US)

Hey all, you need to lock down your credit with the 3 major bureaus. This will prevent anyone from opening up lines of credit in your name. Over the last year, there have been many data breaches where SSNs were compromised. You should assume yours is compromised and on the dark web already.

You can Google or DuckDuckGo search the for the 3 credit bureaus. Create an account and lock it down.

If you need to open a new line of credit afterwards. You can sign in to all three on their respective websites, unlock them, submit your request for credit, sign back into the respective websites, lock your credit back down.