In 2017, Equifax admitted that it had doxed America by leaking the nonconsensual dossiers it builds on the nation, covering up the info while its key employees sold off their stock, and then repeatedly lying about the scope of the breach.
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Claiming your $125 from Equifax is a “moral duty”
If you fill in this form, Equifax will send you $125 as part of its settlement with the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the FTC, and 48 out of 50 states.
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Equifax settles with FTC, CFPB, states, and consumer class actions for $700m
Equifax doxed virtually every adult in America as well as millions of people in other countries like the UK and Canada. The breach was caused by an acquisition spree in which the company bought smaller competitors faster than it could absorb them, followed by negligence in both monitoring and responses to early warnings. Execs who learned of the breach used it as an opportunity to engage in insider trading, while failing to take action to alert the public. Equifax nonconsensually gathers dossiers on everyone it can, seeking the most sensitive and potentially damaging information to record. The company was founded as part of a corporate spy-ring employed to root out and identify political dissidents and sexual minorities.
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Elizabeth Warren proposes holding execs criminally liable for scams and data breaches
A new bill from Senator Elizabeth Warren proposes personal, criminal liability for top executives of companies turning over more than $1B/year when those companies experience data breaches and scams due to negligence (many of the recent high-profile breaches would qualify, including the Equifax giga-breach, as well as many of Wells Fargo’s string of scams and scandals).
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AOC grills Equifax CEO: the Congressional record now contains the obvious, infuriating truth that everyone else already knew
Virtually everyone who’s ever had the credit-rating system explained to them immediately understood that this was a complete scam: these companies that most of us have never heard of nonconsensually ingest gigantic mountains of data about you and your life and produce a numeric score that is nearly impossible to explain and extremely frustrating to alter, and that number is used to determine your access to work, rental accommodations, loans, mortgages and more.
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Congressional Republicans say Equifax breach was “entirely preventable,” blames “aggressive growth strategy” but reject measures to prevent future breaches
Equifax doxed 145 million Americans, dumping their most sensitive financial data into the world forever, with repercussions that will be felt for decades to come.
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It’s been a year since Equifax doxed America and nothing’s changed
Last year Equifax sheepishly admitted that it had breached hundreds of millions of Americans’, Britons’ and Canadians’ private financial data and then suppressed the news (subsequent months revealed that the company had suffered multiple breaches, so many it didn’t know what it had lost and wasn’t looking very hard).
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Equifax says it’s spent $200m on security since the breach, so everything’s OK now
It’s been a year since Equifax doxed the nation of America through carelessness, deception and greed, lying about it and stalling while the problem got worse and worse.
Equifax lets identity thieves raid “frozen” credit reports through its shady, obscure secondary credit bureau
If you’ve had your identity stolen or if you’re worried about having been doxxed by Equifax, you can freeze your credit record, and then Equifax, Experian, Trans Union and Innovis will block any requests to access your credit report.
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Equifax finally publishes a tally of what got breached when it left 146.6 million credit files unsecured
Ever since the news of the Equifax breach broke last September, we’ve been waiting for the company to publish an authoritative tally of what, exactly, got breached.
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