MONEY: a 24-Point Identity Recovery Checklist

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2007/03/your_identity_h.html

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Your Identity Has Been Stolen: a 24-Point Recovery Checklist

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Step 3: Change all passwords that you use online as you walk through the next 21 steps.

While you search for business contacts and download forms to fill out in this recovery process, begin to change all your online passwords (this is assuming your computer wasn’t stolen!). Thieves may have acquired your information through an online password-protected account. Use new and different passwords for each account, and stop saving your passwords online or on your computer.

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Every password should be unique!

Keeping the passwords stored separately from the computer is a lesson that I could learn.

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