and each time lifelock was there to help. i am going to be a member for life. >> the value is priceless. >> what is more important than making sure the only you out there is you? >> now it is your turn. join the millions who made the smart choice to become members of lifelock, the number one most recognized brand in identity theft protection. a lifelock membership means you have award-winning technology working for you, scanning hundreds of millions of transactions each second to detect and alert you to threats. if we detect your information, we sent an alert. if you have problems, a dedicated agent will be assigned to your case and to take the lead to fix it. >> we really help deal with identity theft, period, whatever it might be. whether it is tax fraud, credit card fraud, medical fraud, we help our members resolve that. >> while free credit monitoring only alerts you to changes in credit, lifelock detects a range of threats and helps you resolve problems. >> they do not just monitor credit, they help you when something ha

and each time lifelock was there to help.m going to be a member for life. >> the value is priceless. >> what is more important than making sure the only you out there is you? >> now it is your turn. join the millions who made the smart choice to become members of lifelock, the number one most recognized brand in identity theft protection. a lifelock membership means you have award-winning technology working for you, scanning hundreds of millions of transactions each second to detect and alert you to threats. if we detect your information, we sent an alert. if you have problems, a dedicated agent will be assigned to your case and to take the lead to fix it. >> we really help deal with identity theft, period, whatever it might be. whether it is tax fraud, credit card fraud, medical fraud, we help our members resolve that. >> while free credit monitoring only alerts you to changes in credit, lifelock detects a range of threats and helps you resolve problems. >> they do not just monitor credit, they help you when something happen

i'm gonna be a lifelock member for life. - the value of lifelock to me, it's priceless. what's the value of your credit? what's the value of your family's credit? - what is more important than making sure the only you out there is you? - [announcer] now it's your turn. join the millions of people who made the smart choice to become members of lifelock, the number one most recognized brand in identity theft protection. a lifelock membership means you have proprietary technology working for you scanning hundreds of millions of transactions each second to detect and alert you to threats. if we detect your information being used we will send you an alert. if you have a problem a dedicated u.s.-based restoration agent will be assigned to your case and take the lead to fix it. - we really help deal with identity theft, period, whatever that identity theft might be, whether it is tax fraud, whether it's credit card fraud, loan fraud, medical fraud, that we go and help our member resolve that. - [announcer] while free credit monitoring only alerts you to changes in credit lifelo

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better way to protect themselves like lifelock. >> they have plans that are $10 to $50.ohn: there is a less expensive option that works as well. freeze your credit which locks it like a bank vault. >> you put a freeze on the credit account. >> to initiate a freeze go to the three credit bureau websites. you need a separate freeze at each one. you will pay a one-time fee at $10 but it's better than being a victim like leslie. >> who is doing this to me? john: equifax won't comment on the lawsuits but they won't profit from it or from the monitoring that it's providing so you don't waste your money. john matarese, abc7 news. larry: right now at 5:00, the teachers around parents are fuming after an extreme case of mold and what is not done about it. also tonight, cameras and complaints on of attention-getting light show is about. >> the moment of impact. two buses on a collision course in new york city. >> now, "abc7 news at 5:00". on your side. larry: imagine arriving to the first day of school to find this in the classroom. we obtained these photos of mold at west springf

4% this week the stock has been on a tear thanks to the firm's acquisition of identity theft firm lifelockith investors betting that equifax's 143 million customers impacted by the data breach could be looking for solutions micron and zylinx moving up. investors applauding micron following management's comments, rebuking claims that the memory chip business peaked and was do for a fall that accounts for 64% of micron's revenue >>> time for our top trending stories. steve bannon is headed back to hollywood. reportedly he's getting back into the movie business with an interest in making westerns. he has been taking meetings with movie companies since leaving the white house back in august are you a fan of westerns? >> my family is. my dad is. i think that appeals to a different generation >> yeah. just the classics i like the good, the bad, the ugly, those types. >>> hbo has a plan to throw off game of flothrone leakers they will film more than one ending of the eighth and final series so there's not a definitive answer on how it turns out. was do you think >> i'm torn on this i would rather

and that's been good business for id protection firms like lifelock.a breach at equifax, that was reported last friday, it's been receiving 10 times the normal rate of sign-ups per hour and signed up over 100,000 new customers in just the past week. most of the people are paying the full price and not discount. investors are reacting in a very big way to the equifax breach. that company's stock has gone down over 30%, more than $5 billion in lost market cap for equifax since last friday's. >>> a couple of key economic reports in. initial jobless claims fell by 14,000 down from 298,000 the prior week which was the highest level in 2.5 years. that was the result of hurricane harvey. and labor also reporting that consumer side inflation in august was up by 4/10ths of a percent. that was the strongest gain in 7 months mainly because of higher gas prices and also higher housing costs. the stock market is coming off a day in which all three major indices closed at all-time highs but today a little weaker to start. the dow down 7. nasdaq down 30. the s&p is d

liz: and can i ask you one important question, you acquired lifelock for stealing people's identities, protecting people from that. does all of this underscore the fact that we maybe need to make social security numbers much more difficult to be able to hack or find? it's just a series of numbers which can easily be, perhaps compromised. do you see a change eventually in the basic social security number? >> i think that we definitely, in the future we will redesign how to identify citizens for online commerce, online tractions and authentication, and how we deal with things online, there will be work done there. that is in our future, but right now live with what we've got. and if you think about the kind of things that are compromised, it's not just about making a fake credit card, when your identity is out there. people can buy a gun with your identity, rent cars with identity, create driver's license if they are criminals using your identity. change the registered address and work on things like mortgages. identity protection is extremely important going forward. liz: tell the gang