Last Thursday, Howard Stringer, Sony's chairman and chief executive apologized for the security breach proving the fact that Sony is not using any identity theft tool. This incident has left the personal data of 77 million customers open for hackers and trackers making identity theft serious.

The company warned the customers about the identity theft but lately gave the one year subscription to a surveillance service that will poll for identity theft victims and will alert them. This surveillance service is very reactive since thieves can make a lot of damage before the alert goes on. In this place a security freeze can really help. The initial cost of freeze will be around $20 or so per bureau, which depends largely on the regional state laws and also if one was previous victim of the identity theft or not.

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