Equifax Hack

[Millhouse]

(09-09-2017, 11:37 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Always thought it was silly we all agreed to participate in a system where 3 companies control so much about your life and your ability to do much of anything.

Hopefully this will lead it to become less centralized, but it's doubtful. "Too big to fail" comes to mind. They'll go about making a noise in the government, a couple people will get some golden parachutes, and some meaninglessly small fines will be levied. Some lawsuit will happen, the only people to get significant money out of it will be the lawyers. Meanwhile rank and file people will spend the rest of their lives trying to recover from tanked credit scores.

The thing is I bet a majority of people that got their info stolen through them didn't even know they had it in the first place. If anyone went to a business like a Kohls, Target, Best Buy, car dealerships, etc. to try to set up a line of credit to purchase something or get that in-house credit card, then chances are they used Equifax to run the credit report with. I used them when I worked with an oil company to set up lines of credit with customers that wanted deliveries on credit.

The crazy thing is this doesnt seem to be like a top priority by the government to deal with. Ffs this was basically a major e-terrorist attack on people's vital information. Yet its being treated very ho-humly by those in power. Has anyone heard a word about it from Congress or the White House? I know some committee in Congress will have a hearing, like that will do any good. Havent heard anything from the White House though. I guess they dont consider it a big deal, as they would hate to slam a corporation.