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IMPORTANT! Find out if your Social Security number was exposed

From “How to Tell If Your Social Security Number Was Compromised in Massive Data Breach,” Epoch Times, 8/24/2024:

After a data protection company confirmed that numerous Social Security numbers were hacked, several websites have appeared this week allowing people to check if they’ve been compromised in the data breach.

A lawsuit filed in a Florida court against National Public Data alleged that cybercrime organization USDoD hacked the firm and that hackers then put the database for sale on the dark web for $3.5 million. The suit claimed that about 2.9 billion records, including names and Social Security numbers, span at least the last three decades….

National Public Data, in a letter and in an online statement, confirmed a data breach…the firm said that 1.3 million people were potentially exposed…. It further confirmed that personal information such as Social Security numbers, mailing addresses, email addresses, names, phone numbers, and other data were compromised in the incident….

How to Check

Since details of the incident surfaced this month, at least two third-party websites have been established to tell whether one’s Social Security number has been compromised in the breach.

One is operated by Pentester, a cybersecurity testing service, which allows a person to type their first name, last name, state, and date of birth….
Another site that appeared in the past week or so is www.npdbreach.com, operated by Atlas Privacy, another cybersecurity company….

That site allows a person to search via his or her first name, last name, and ZIP code. Or, it allows one to search using his or her Social Security number or phone number.

I clicked on Pentester, and found that my Social Security number had been breached. I then froze my credit at Equifax, Esperian, and TransUnion (note: you can still access your credit report after a credit freeze), as well as purchase a monthly plan at Pentester, which is running a comprehensive security scan to identify and remove my exposed data from the web.

~E

The Freaks-for-Hamas Caption Contest

This is our world-famous 282nd Caption Contest!

Here’s the pic:

You know the drill:

  • Enter the contest by submitting your caption as a comment on this thread (scroll down until you see the “LEAVE A REPLY” box).
  • Body and Soul‘s writers will vote for the winner.
  • Any captions proffered by our writers, no matter how brilliant (ha ha), will not be considered. :(

This contest will be closed at the end of Tuesday, August 27, 2024.

‘To get the contest going, here’s my caption:

Correction: “FREE GAZA TERRORISTS”

For the winner of our last Caption Contest, go here.

~E

We have a winner!

WE HAVE A WINNER FOR OUR 281st CAPTION CONTEST!

Our writers dutifully voted for their #1 and #2 captions. Each #1 vote is worth 4 points; each #2 vote us worth 2 points.

And the clear winner, with four #1 votes, totaling a whopping 16 points, is:

TrueDan!

Here is his caption:

Don’t worry son. I’ll be in prison with you before long.

Brian Heinz is in 2nd place, with one #1 and two #2 votes, totaling 8 points:

Did you get the COKE I sent you? It’s in the box holding room that should pay you up till the next installment from the Ukraine.

Captain America is in 3rd place, with two #2 votes and 4 points:

Get used to the hugs, son, cuz we are both going to prison.

Another TrueDan caption is in 4th place, with one #2 vote and 2 points:

Remember – As the “Big Guy”, I only get 10% of the profits. I don’t suffer any losses or prison time.

WELL DONE, EVERYONE!

Congratulations, TrueDan!

For all the caption submissions, go here.

Be here later today for our next Caption Contest!

~E

Saturday Animals ❤️

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How long will you live?

Wanna know how long you will live?

You can find out by going to Lifespan Calculator, where you’ll be asked to answer 13 questions, e.g., your age, gender, height, weight, family cardiovascular history, etc.

With each answer, your estimated lifespan will either increase or decrease.

Go here.

~E

Trump assassination attempt: a failure of law enforcement & the Secret Service

A defiant Trump after the assassin’s bullet grazed and bloodied his right ear. Raising his fist in the air, he cried out, “Fight, fight, fight!”.

What evidence we have point to a massive failure and complacency of law enforcement and the Secret Service in protecting President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, and preventing the death of a former fire chief and the injury of two other rally attendants. That’s a charitable characterization. A less charitable explanation is that the assassinaton attempt had been engineered by the Deep State.

Below are the multiple failures and sheer incompetence of supposed professionals:

1. U.S. officials, i.e., the Biden Administration, were warned of a potential Iranian assassination plot against Trump weeks before deadly shooting. (NY Post)

2. 30 minutes before the first shot was fired, cops at the scene noticed the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, clambering into place in plain sight just 130 yards away from the rally stage and even took two photos of him because he was acting suspiciously, sources told WPXI. Meanwhile, almost comically, a counter-sniper team was inside the building on which roof was the assassin. The sniper team was using the building as a “watch post” during the event when Crooks pulled the trigger. (Source: Daily Mail)

3. Attendants at the rally alerted law enforcement to the gunman on the roof of the building at least two minutes before the first shot was fired at Trump, video analyzed by CBS News shows. One witness exclaimed as a law enforcement officer walked around the building, “Look, they’re all pointing. Someone’s on top of the roof. There he is, right there. Right there, see him? He’s laying down.” Another witness gestured to the officer, referring to the gunman: “He’s on the roof … right here, right on the roof.”

4. Passing the buck: A Secret Service source told Scripps News that the agency did not sweep the rooftop from which Crooks shot at former President Donald Trump Saturday, saying it was up to local law enforcement to secure that building as it was outside of the perimeter that the agency would secure. However, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania State Police said the department had provided “all resources” requested by the Secret Service, including 30 to 40 troopers who helped secure the inside perimeter, but that it “was not responsible for securing” the building or the property on which it resides.

Patrick Yoes, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, America’s largest police group, blasted the Secret Service for trying to shift blame to local police: “Whatever happened in Butler, this was not a failure of the local, state, or federal officers on the ground who responded to the shots fired at former President Trump, they acted heroically and put their lives on the line to protect everyone else at the event. We must recognize that. This is a failure at the management or command level who failed to secure an obvious weakness in the security of this event.” Yoes warned that Secret Service efforts to push blame down to local police for failing to secure a building rooftop used by the shooter would be counterproductive, especially with so many campaign events ahead in the election that will require local, state and federal officials to cooperate.

Lastly, here’s another oddity:

BlackRock Inc. — the world’s largest money manager and ultra-woke investment firm that is benefiting from Biden’s US taxpayers’ multibillion-dollar funding of Ukraine with big government deals to “rebuild” Ukraine — has pulled an ad that briefly featured Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old assassin. Black Rock said Crooks was a student at Bethel Park High School and appeared in the 2022 ad with other unpaid teens. “In 2022, we ran an ad featuring a teacher from Bethel Park High School, in which several unpaid students briefly appeared in the background, including Thomas Matthew Crooks,” the company said in a statement to Reuters. The 30-second BlackRock TV ad features an AP and honors economics class that Crooks attended at the time. (Source: NY Post)

What a coinkidink!

Not.

~E

Tuesday night funnies!

 

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Instant justice for man who kicks and shatters glass door of hotel

A man repeatedly punches and kicks the front glass door of a Marriott hotel, shattering one of the panes instantly and almost knocking the door from its hinges.

He then enters the lobby to the front desk as if nothing had happened.

A police officer and two hotel security personnel approach the man who protests: “I’m a citizen!.”

Watch what happens!

Give that cop a raise and a medal!

~E

Saturday Funnies!

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The Father-Son Criminals Caption Contest

This is our world-famous 281st Caption Contest!

Here’s the pic:

About the pic: On June 11, 2024, Joe Biden arranged an airport photo op in a public show of support for a convicted criminal — his 54-year-old son — hours after Hunter’s conviction on three federal gun charges. (New York Post)

You know the drill:

  • Enter the contest by submitting your caption as a comment on this thread (scroll down until you see the “LEAVE A REPLY” box).
  • Body and Soul‘s writers will vote for the winner.
  • Any captions proffered by our writers, no matter how brilliant (ha ha), will not be considered. :(

This contest will be closed at the end of Tuesday, July 9, 2024.

‘To get the contest going, here’s my caption:

Like father, like son.

For the winner of our last Caption Contest, go here.

~E