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Sony To Offer Free Identity Theft Monitoring

Posted by timothy on from the should-be-an-easy-script-to-write dept.

olsmeister writes "Several weeks after having the PlayStation Network hacked, and apologizing to users for the breach, Sony is offering $1 million in identity theft protection for users who sign up before June 18th. The protection is being offered through Debix and is called AllClear ID Plus. This appears to be some kind of custom plan especially for Sony, as their normal offerings are called AllClear ID Free and AllClear ID Pro."

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  1. Let's give away our personal info again!! by SomeoneGotMyNick · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, when we sign up for this (somewhat unknown) Debix service, can we look forward to our full identities being stolen in the near future?

    1. Re:Let's give away our personal info again!! by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Are you calling all nine of these photogenic-but-irrelevant stock-footage models liars? For shame, cad. And they have "secure phone call" technology! That's, like, CIA shit, man. Totally trustworthy. I, for one, eagerly await the chance to enter all SSNs and CCNs into an improperly secured form when I get an email from the "s0ny h3rbal cust0mer Protection Se4vice" asking me to verify.

  2. Rights by swilver · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What rights am I signing away by doing this?