GAP Inc. Stolen Unencrypted Data of Job Applicants.?
Today is Oct. 9th and I have just received a letter in the mail… almost three weeks after it occurred that two lap tops from a third party vendor were stolen and in it contained personal information including my SS# and the SS#s of 800,000 other Job Applicants that applied between July 2006 and June 2007. This means if you applied to Old Navy, Gap, and Banana Republic during this time period…all of your personal information is in the hands of possible identity thiefs and there is nothing you can do about it. They are offering 12 months of credit monitoring but somehow that doesn't make me feel any better. The incompetence of a multi-million dollar company not valuing the security of probable customers and job applicants anger me. What do you think? And have you gotten the letter too?
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Filed under: Data Security
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Well there is one other thing you can do in the short run. Immediately place a fraud alert on your credit file. With documentation, the letter from GAP should enough, you can place a 7 year alert on your file. This way anytime someone attempts to open up credit they go through extra steps to verify it is you.
Below is the link to put the alert on your file, it is totally free to do. Once you place it with one CRA they will automatically notify the other two.
Take the monitoring and live with it ..that's just the way it is..