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>>itcrow+(OP)
If what the article says is true and PPI is indeed in these documents than these documents are ripe for fraud, criminal use and identity theft. This is worse than a password leak.

>>larryd+w7
If previous incidents have taught us anything, it's that taxpayers should buy free credit monitoring to everyone affected by the leak and be done with it. Maybe throw in $10 to anyone that can prove they suffered losses as a direct result of the leak.

>>aj3+Z8
Monitoring sucks. Freeze your credit (don't just lock it) until it's absolutely needed, then refreeze it. This will choke off much of the business of credit bureaus, but too bad so sad. There are a number of interesting approaches to solving the same problems as credit bureaus (risk assessment, identity verification, etc.) that don't carry as much consumer risk as the big three bureaus do every single day.