1. Put a free 90-day fraud alert on your credit file: https://www.alerts.equifax.com/AutoFrau ... dAlert.jsp
They will notify the other two credit bureaus for you.
2. Put a free 90-day security alert on your banking file: https://www.consumerdebit.com/consumeri ... /index.htm
3. Renew every 90 days.
While not as airtight as a credit freeze which costs you $$50 or so each time to take it on and again to take it off, it's free and its better than dealing with the spaghetti mess after the fact with credit monitoring services (security theatre).
I would have put up the IRS transcript link to create an account, but they've taken it down. lolz
How to Protect Your Credit Identity
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