Freezing your credit after the Equifax breach won’t prevent the most common type of identity theft — here’s what will

A credit freeze protects only against new accounts being opened in your name — one of the rarest types of identity theft out there, affecting only 4% of victims, according to the most recent Bureau of Justice Statistics data..

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