Safeguarding Your Identity After the National Public Data Breach

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Learn how the National Public Data breach could affect you and what actions you can take after a major data breach occurs. What should you do after a major data breach? How can you secure your data from unscrupulous data brokers? Hosts Sean Pyles and Anna Helhoski discuss the alarming security breach at National Public Data with investigative journalist Bob Sullivan, exploring the implications of the breach and providing actionable tips on how to protect your personal information from future threats. Then, Sean and Anna discuss the latest money headlines, including Fed interest rates, the turbulent real estate market’s challenges posed by high mortgage rates and rising home prices, and the antitrust lawsuit against RealPage for alleged price-fixing in the rental market. Use NerdWallet’s “How much house can I afford?” calculator: https://www.nerdwallet.com/mortgages/how-much-house-can-i-afford/calculate-affordability In their conversation, the Nerds discuss: National Public Data breach, Social Security number protection, credit monitoring, interest rate cut, Fed interest rates, housing market trends, mortgage rates, home affordability, real estate market, rent increase, rental market, antitrust lawsuit, financial security, cybersecurity, credit score impact, data protection, mortgage tips, home buying tips, housing prices, RealPage lawsuit, rental software, property management, interest rate prediction, inflation impact, homeownership, financial planning, identity theft, security breach, class action lawsuit, credit report, credit freeze, housing market forecast, fed policy, real estate tips, housing affordability, mortgage rates 2024, and rental prices. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Welcome to NerdWallets Smart Money Podcast. I'm Sean Piles.
0:39.6	And I'm Onahil Hoski.
0:41.1	And this is our weekly Money News Roundup, where we break down the latest in the world of finance to help you be smarter with your money.
0:47.8	We'll go deep into a single topic and then leave you with the latest money headlines.
0:52.3	Today, we're talking about a recent security brief that could have likely exposed your
0:56.5	social security number and other private information.
0:59.5	To get the scoop on what happened and what it means for you, I spoke with journalist Bob Sullivan,
1:04.2	who hosts the Perfect Scam podcast for AARP and is the author of The New York Times bestseller,
1:09.8	Stop Getting Ricked Off.
1:16.5	We're joined by journalist Bob Sullivan.
1:18.9	Bob, welcome back to the show.
1:20.4	Thanks for having me.
1:21.5	Okay, so there's this company called National Public Data that's a crib from your own headline about all of this, just essentially
1:28.7	made a ton of people's social security numbers public. First of all, yikes. Second, what is this
1:34.3	company? Tell us what it does. This is a background employment company. So if you are worried
1:40.2	about hiring someone and you want to get a quick snapshot of whether or not they have a criminal
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