photo of How to freeze your credit after a data breach image Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Back in 2017, Equifax announced that hackers stole half of the US population’s Social Security numbers in what, we said, “will likely end up being one of the worst data breaches to ever affect the country.” Perhaps — until this year, when about 2.9 billion rows…
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