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Louisiana’s Office of Motor Vehicles Data Breach
Louisiana’s Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV) utilizes MOVEit, a popular data transfer service. On Thursday, June 16, MOVEit reported the theft of personal information in an international cyberattack.
Currently, there is no indication that cyber attackers who breached MOVEit have sold, used, shared or released the OMV data obtained from the MOVEit attack. OMV believes that all Louisianans with a state-issued driver’s license, ID, or car registration have likely had the following data exposed to the cyber attackers:
Name
Address
Social Security Number
Birthdate
Height
Eye Color
Driver’s License Number
Vehicle Registration Information
Handicap Placard Information
All Louisianans are urged to take immediate steps to safeguard their identity.
Steps to Take:
Monitor all of your account transactions regularly for any suspicious activity.
Monitor credit reports for errors and get one free annual report at annualcreditreport.com.
Consider freezing your credit, which stops others from opening new accounts and borrowing money in your name. Freezing your credit does not prevent the use of any existing credit card or accounts. Freezing your credit may be done quickly online or by contacting the three major credit bureaus:
o Experian: 1-888-397-3742; www.experian.com/freeze
o Equifax: 1-800-685-1111; www.equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services/credit-freeze/
o TransUnion: 1-888-909-8872; www.transunion.com/credit-freeze
Update passwords and usernames often by using a combination of letters (lower- and upper-case letters), numbers, and special characters.
Contact Baton Rouge City Parish Employees’ FCU immediately if you suspect any of your accounts have been compromised.
You can contact us at 225.389.3059, or visit us at 433 Government Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802 if you would like additional information on how to protect yourself from fraud or identity theft.
To receive the most up to date information regarding the breach, please visit the OMV website.
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Scam Alert
Mail Theft Increase leads to Check Fraud
Mail theft and armed robberies against U.S. Postal Service carriers have increased substantially throughout the country. The criminal’s focus is to gain access to the master keys of the blue USPS mailboxes - ultimately in search for checks that can be altered, counterfeited, or sold online.
We encourage members to:
Pay bills online or using the credit union’s bill paying service.
Mail checks inside the Post Office lobby, rather than using blue mailboxes.
Log into credit union accounts frequently to review transaction history - looking for unfamiliar transactions.
Report unfamiliar and unauthorized transactions immediately to the credit union.
NCUA WARNS CONSUMERS ABOUT “SPOOFING” SCAM MIMICKING AGENCY’S TELEPHONE
The National Credit Union Administration is alerting consumers that texts they receive from an agency telephone line, 703-518-6301, asking for personal information are not coming from NCUA. NCUA does not request personal or financial information from consumers. View the FBI Fraud Alert (PDF) for more information.
This attempted fraud scam is called “spoofing." The perpetrators are able to mimic a telephone number to generate text messages. The texts may warn of a debit card reaching its limit or use some other trick to persuade individuals to provide personal information or go to a malicious website. Consumers should not click on links in the message, provide information to any websites referenced in the message nor attempt to conduct any financial transactions through those websites.
Consumers receiving these texts should contact NCUA’s Consumer Assistance Center Hotline at (800) 755-1030. NCUA also offers information about avoiding frauds and scams.
Consumers who suspect they may have become victims of identity theft should immediately contact their financial institutions and, if necessary, close existing accounts and open new ones. When identity theft occurs, NCUA urges consumers also to contact the three major credit bureaus including Equifax at (800) 525-6285, Experian at (888) 397-3742, and TransUnion at (800) 680-7289 to request a fraud alert be placed on their credit reports.