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It's not the bank accounts you need to worry about. It's them opening credit cards in your name. Full name, SocSec #, and sometimes last know address... then voila you're holding the bag for $15,000 in Credt Card charges.
If that checker link is to be trusted, my information wasn't compromised but my wife's was. Way to go, Equifax.
Ugh. Mine. Open credit cards in my name. Secured ones. None of the other ones like me.
I never considered "financially responsible enough not to use credit" synonymous with "Don't approve this person for anything" until I started wondering why the hell my car loan rates were so high.
Now I have a single loan from my credit union, and I use the loan to pay the loan, and when the loan is paid I'll get another loan to pay itself. Costs about $90 a year but my credit is slowly building itself from nonexistent. It's not quite there yet though. Only been about 4 months.