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1) Is the alert for real? From an reputable source and not spoofed? Not phishing?

2) Welcome to the New Normal[tm]. Do what you are currently doing (2FA everywhere) and watch your financial statements for unauthorized charges.

1) Yes, it's from CapitalOne's credit monitoring service. 2) The new normal is scary.

to be fair it's scarier that someone with a immutable secret number can steal your identity.

credit companies now have to do their due diligence before shooting loans left and right.

this is THE normal in most of the world.

> credit companies now have to do their due diligence before shooting loans left and right.

Hopefully we'll arrive at what it should have always been — sign here with your private key, please.

(An SSN is a [short] public key with no private key-pair)