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T-Mobile's McAfee sign up page requires that you supply SSN and DOB
Requiring T-Mobile's victims of ID theft to supply their SSN and DOB to enroll in McAfee's ID Theft protection seems to be adding to the injury. Why is this necessary just to enroll? For enrollment...
gramps28 wrote:They need to know who you are. You eventually are going to give it to them if you want full protection.
It's like applying for a credit card on line. You just hope that the website is encrypted.
I just hope they store the data encrypted. If tmo engineering had properly managed our data in the first place this thread wouldn't exist. It should be a felony to store PII in an unencrypted state. Why these things continue to happen after so many examples of poorly managed data have been publicized is completely mind-boggling.
