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Future Meetings access to your personal infor-
mation, they typically try to
Below is a list of dates the for squeeze as much benefit as possi-
2017. ble from its unauthorized access,
and as quickly as possible, prefer-
20th September 2017 ably before you hear about it. Just
what can you do once you realize
18th October 2017 that you've been hacked?

15th November 2017
How Will You Know?

13th December 2017 When a major hack like the recent
Equifax one occurs, the press go
wild. We all know that hackers
now own personal data for 143
What to Do If You Have million consumers most of them
are in America. It has now been
Been Hacked revealed that some 400,000 people

Whether your personal data gets in the UK are affected by the data
compromised in an Equifax-style loss, it is not clear how this data
breach or your email password is arrived in the US or which UK
exposed, getting hacked can be a companies have in effect sent it
nightmare. Knowing what to ex- there. In the case of this latest data
pect and how to fix it can help, but loss the company have set up a
knowing how to head off the prob- website for you to check if you
lem in the first place is even bet- were affected, but you might as
ter. well assume that you were. The
only upside is that you're one
Lets face it, our government prob-
among millions, so the hackers
ably knows everything there is to
may never get around to messing
know about you. Other govern- with your details.
ments as well. If criminals get