Family memberships: Add protection for your children

If you have children, there are several features you can activate to help protect them: 

Monitor your child’s identity

You can keep an eye on your child’s information to help catch potential child identity theft. If your child’s identity is used in a transaction, we’ll send an alert as soon as possible.

 Note: Before you add a child to your account, be sure to have your child’s date of birth and Social Security number on hand.

 To monitor your child’s identity:

1. Log in to your account
2. Click on your name in the top right corner
3. Select “Manage Family Members”
4. Click “Add new member”
5. Enter your child’s personal information, including date of birth and Social Security number
6. Click “Save”

Monitor your child’s information on the dark web

If your child has an email address

If your child has an email address, you can add it to dark web monitoring. We’ll send an alert if your child’s email address ends up on the dark web. 

If your child has web login credentials

If your child has web login credentials — like gaming or social media accounts — you can add these to dark web monitoring. Then we’ll send an alert if these credentials end up on the dark web.

Monitor your child’s social media accounts

With social media monitoring, you can keep an eye on your child’s Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram posts. Once you’ve linked your child’s social accounts, we’ll watch out for account takeover or potentially inappropriate comments. We’ll alert you if we see any issues, and you can take it from there.

To activate social media monitoring for your child:

Note: You will need the login credentials for the social media accounts you’d like to connect.

1. Log in to your account
2. Go to your child’s account (if you haven’t yet, you will need to add your child to your account first)
3. Click on the “Social Monitoring” tab
4. Click “Connect” next to the social media account you’d like to connect
5. Go through the authorization process to connect the account