![]() Don't forget to listen to the daily Talking Tech podcast wherever you check out podcasts, subscribe to the daily Talking Tech newsletter () and look for me on Instagram and YouTube. Join the conversation on Twitter, where I'm up for my new daily Talking Tech text feature (it's free) ![]() Have questions about online security? We're here to help. More: If you're traveling July 4th, be careful with free Wi-Fi and protect your data More: Weekend project: Update your passwords More: Capital One data breach fallout: How to protect yourself Im a victim of bank fraud - not someone stealing my ID and using my accounts but rather by the bank itself. Capital One Bank phone number is 888(362)-7439 Toll-free Support. USA TODAY has written a lot about this over the years. Capital One Bank 888 (362)-7439 Service office is open Mon-Sun. Most experts also tout a combination of lower and upper case letters, numbers and symbols, ones a hacker couldn't get, like either something impossible like QQXX$^%# or a variation that only you would know like a favorite movie spelled backwards, with the addition of some symbols. In beefing up your password, Facebook recommends longer passwords as "usually more secure" and that they shouldn't be "your email, phone number or birthday." And a hacked password can get into her financial information, private messages, photos and more. We urged Rhonda to change her password, because there's always a chance the hacker didn't get it. That didn't help stop all the bogus friend requests going out. ![]() Make the call to the corporate number if you should ever wish to verify a problem. Please be careful and never give out your SS or acct. The next day, many friends started receiving distress e-mails asking for money to get me home from a foreign land, when I was said to be penniless.įacebook's solution wasn't much of a help to her, just telling Rhonda to flag the account that was impersonating her so that Facebook could take it down. Called the corporate number for Capitol One and they confirmed this number is a fraud. We once had our Yahoo account hacked from a legit looking e-mail with fine print so small, that when we were asked to click a link to keep the pro level of the mail account, we did. It was the bank and what it blamed as a human error in security monitoring that led them down.īut still, we need to take precautions and be extra safe. In this case of Capital One applicants, they did the right thing. Which just goes to show you that even when you think you're doing something that's safe - applying for a credit card application, your data is at risk. On Wednesday, federal prosecutors said that hack of Capital One bank credit card applications and those 140,000 social security numbers that were accessed was just the tip of the iceberg, and that several other firms, government agencies and educational institutions were also hit. Keeping your financial information safe and secure is very important to us. Readers, you really need to be on your toes.
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