The Indiana Attorney General's office is making it easier to freeze your credit, to keep yourself safe this holiday season.
With the Thanksgiving holiday quickly approaching–and black Friday after it–Hoosiers will be swiping cards at stores around the state and every swipe increases the chances that your identity could be stolen. It’s a problem that is becoming more common as Indiana had more than 1,000 identity theft complaints this year with 400 reported data breaches.
Attorney General Greg Zoeller says we are “naive if we think that our information is not already exposed” and he says that a credit freeze is the easiest way to protect ourselves. The credit freeze can be accessed at any time, and your credit can be opened back up whenever are looking to start a new line of credit. Zoeller says it took him 10 minutes to freeze his credit, and it takes just about as long to reverse that if you want to get something.
His office launched the new “Freeze Identity Thieves” awareness campaign on Wednesday at Indiana Tech's Law School in Fort Wayne. He hopes that the holiday shopping season will help keep people focused on their credit.
You can access the full credit freeze by clicking here.
