The question of whether people should trust technology and mobile phones to check important and sensitive information (like their credit score) is certainly a legitimate one with identity theft on the rise. The trouble is that checking your credit report is one of the best ways to confirm whether someone really is tampering with your identity and hence the conundrum.
Fortunately many leading credit reporting sites are secured by 128 bit SSL encryption technology. Encryption codes the information in a file so that in the unlikely event that it is intercepted by a third party, it cannot be read.
Credit reporting sites are not only 128 bit encrypted but they use often also a thawte certificate to ensure secure transmission of sensitive information. Finally their layers of identity confirmation checks ensure that worries of using a computer or mobile device to keep track of sensitive information are needless.
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