The Signal 8/14/26 - The identity-protection company got breached. Now what?

Aura, a company whose product is protecting your identity, disclosed that an attacker tricked an employee by phone and accessed roughly 900,000 records from a marketing database. The irony writes the headline, but the useful episode is underneath: what these services really do, what the free version looks like, and how to decide if paying makes sense for your family.