When a credit card gets stolen, it’s easy for the victim of the crime to shut down the card, get a new account number and avoid monetary loss. But financial peril rises and can persist for years when personal data likely to stay the same forever — like Social Security numbers, names and dates of birth — get stolen like it did in the cyber attack on credit-reporting service Equifax.

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