Defend Your Dollars is the website of the Consumers Union Financial Services Campaign, where we support reforms to the financial marketplace to curb bad practices by banks and lenders.
Have you heard about the latest data security breach? This one's at Transunion! Apparently, someone in Arizona tapped into more than 1700 people's credit information with one password. Here's one article describing the incident.
If you live in state that allows you to place a security freeze on your account, you may consider locking down your files to help prevent new account theft and fraud from happening to you.