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I concur with others that this is the "new normal." My husband is a cybersecurity professional. He says that in the past few years, hacking for personal information has gotten to be such a "normalized" business that hackers now purchase "off the shelf" hacking software that even comes with customer service support tickets! So it's opened up new opportunities for those with no programming experience. You can see how out of control this could get, and quickly.

What steps do my husband and I take, considering the risks that our personal information is probably already "out there", maybe dozens of times? The same as you - freezing credit at all 3 bureaus, using 2FA, using unique, hard-to-guess passwords that are updated on the regular, and being careful about what you send through gmail. I use mega.co.nz to store all personal documents, since that cloud service has encryption. So far, so good. My identity has not been stolen nor my bank or credit hacked.