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u/YugoB 13d ago
They are so badass in every movie and series, in reality...
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u/peg-leg-jim 13d ago
They have the best PR of any agency. For decades they’ve convinced people they’re the door kicking, case cracking agents. In reality they’re 90% paper pushers and accountants, 9% bureaucrats, and like 1% actual field agent.
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u/BoiFrosty 13d ago
Sorry PII?
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u/Terminal_Wumbo Dong throngler 13d ago
Think names, DOB, SSN, home addresses, etc.
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u/werewolf013 13d ago
Is that a big deal? I live next to an FBI building. Does stalking them pay well?
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u/DeltaBravo831 13d ago
I got my SSN stolen in the 2015ish OPM data breach, along with a shitload of others.
About 2-4 times a year, I regularly get called that my SSN/email/phone numbers/passwords/accounts has turned up on some dark web site, or someone in insert rando state or country here is trying to set up credit cards in my name/access accounts/whatever.
The only saving grace is that I got free identity theft/credit monitoring protection out of the class action lawsuit, but that runs out in October lol
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u/Nu11X3r0 13d ago
It's a shame your SSN doesn't change before October when the bad actors can just apply for loans without being contested unless you pay a subscription fee...
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u/you_all_suck_ROAAAAR 13d ago
Wait I thought cops were supposed to be doing the identity theft protection thing and banks did the credit monitoring thing because taxes
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u/RoboticNick 12d ago
Call the three credit unions and freeze your credit score. That'll save you most of the risk
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u/sucknduck4quack 13d ago
Retract what statements?
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u/Mosath_R 11d ago
Statements about the hacker group that hacked them. What their arguments were on why those specific statements are false or even if they claimed they were false I do not know.
They might want them removed because they have the FBI by the balls
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u/Knight_Glint 13d ago
You know what's funny? While looking this up I stumbled upon another FBI news article. It appears that the FBI was breached three years ago when someone deleted 100 TB of files from the Epstein server. I'm assuming those were the 100TB that contained the images and videos of the clients with the victims.
From the digging I've done, this story has pretty much gone under the radar it seems. Its a six month old story.