Each similar event leaves me / us less trusting of these systems and with good reason. We have not advanced, we have become slaves to these systems and they consume us.
For later.
Clearly this is too late for this event, but I usually save the numbers of those sites that send two-factor codes into my contacts by the company name. So then the next time they send an access code, I see their name on the text, not just the originating texter’s digits (which are rarely an actual phone number sequence.) Most companies that perform this two-factor authentication use the same ‘from’ number each time.
Never worry though. Your government issued CBDC will be completely safe and hacker-proof.
When hell freezes over.
One further thought: If you were sent a two-factor code without having to provide a cell phone number during your attempted log-in, then you can be assured that it was a genuine two-factor code because they used your stored profile information to know what cell phone number to send the two-factor code to. No hacker would know what cell phone number you have in order to spoof the two-factor process.
American Association of Retired LIBERAL People.
AMAC’s Medicare Advisory Service
The Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC)
There seems to be over the past year, a coordinated effort to collect all American’s health records.
Recently I’ve been getting phone calls at any time of the day or night which I ignore.
One call came in at 6 am Saturday morning. A few days later I took a chance and called the number back. The man spoke in a rushed haphazard manner and you could hear other people in a call center calling and delivering the same script.
I couldn’t hear him well because of all the other call center staff. UHC normally doesn’t sound like that a all.
I was wondering what was going on and didn’t speak for a moment and I could barely hear him above the noise so he abruptly asked, “Can you hear me” to which I replied, “Not really, there’s so much noise behind you.”
He then blurted, “Do you have diabetes?” as if the fact I just said I could barely hear him was irrelevant.
I don’t have diabetes in my medical records. He must not have access to the medical side of my personal information or he would know that. Why would UHC call their members and ask if they have diabetes?
He sounded Indian, as did those in the call center behind him. He was unaware of how suspicious and unprofessional this line of conversation was.
I hung up.
I suspect the UHC staff knows all about their latest breach or that user identity information really was stolen in the prior breach, and so they act like it doesn’t matter to de-escalate concern as if to say, “We’re not worried, so you shouldn’t be worried.”
Are you sure it’s not your phone that’s compromised?
AARP = Socialism for Blue Hairs
Why are you not logging in directly from the UHC website? Why bother with a redirect from the AARP website? That’s just another layer of vulnerability. Do you have the UHC app? You can get any info through the app.
My PII has been leaked 3 times. All by healthcare providers.
First thing to understand is all information security is an illusion. Machines operated by humans are not secure and cannot be made secure.
Subscribe to good identity protection on your own. Don’t rely on anything given to you free after a breach.
If two factor authentication is offered, set it up and use it. It’s much more secure than just a pwd, but not entirely foolproof.