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Yes. The first thing you can do is freeze your credit.

Yes, if someone has stolen your child’s personal information, it’s possible for accounts to be opened in your child’s name. To determine whether this has happened, you can contact the three major credit bureaus (Experian, TransUnion, Equifax) to see if your child has a file.

If you consented at any point (this might include providing your number on an account application), a debt collector can do this.

No, an eviction notice by itself won’t show up on your credit report.

There are a couple of other ways that evidence of an eviction could still show up on you credit report, for example, if you

Yes, most landlords will want to check your credit to help them decide whether to rent to you.

On-time rent payments aren’t generally included in your credit report (your landlord has the option, but most don’t report them). However, if you don’t to pay your rent on time (or at all), your landlord might report it to a credit reporting agency and it would appear on your credit report.

A data breach is a security violation in which sensitive, protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen or used by an unauthorized individual. It could be a result of

A Social Security number can be used to steal your identity (commonly called identity theft) to commit fraud, open new credit and bank accounts, get medical care/other benefits and obtain employment.