Data Exposure

Jonah, you mentioned utilizing a separate topic for this:

I am receiving alerts from Experian about a company they have labeled as “Darkweb” that shows my name, address, phone number, SSN and DOB. Optery will only address it as an “Extended Reach” candidate.

Update: The “Darkweb” alert identified by Experian is:

I also submitted:

It could be they’re using AI to determine which are “reach” and which are more imminent threats. AI-based detection can make mistakes here since it isn’t based on deterministic rules defining what threat is imminent.

This was probably a data breach, your data may be compromised here: https://npdbreach.com/

There’s probably nothing you (or Optery’s Extended Reach plan) can do about this in terms of opting-out, because data from this data broker has already been publicized and highly disseminated.

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