That was the threat when the OPM got hacked a few years back -- anyone who ever had a background investigation done for a federal job now had their background i

That was the threat when the OPM got hacked a few years back -- anyone who ever had a background investigation done for a federal job now had their background info in some russian or chinese database dump. With that level of detail, you could start blackmailing some Lockheed or Raytheon employees until they leak some stealth fighter radar secrets to make the monthly false homeloan headaches go away. I don't think the next world war will be fought with nukes, it will be an economic fight. Leak a few corporate secrets [1] to stall the economy, use the OPM dump and this Equifax dump to originate enough false loans to seize up the financial sector, then cause havok across the electrical grid [2] like you did during the annexation of Crimea just to make sure they stay down. We've been blind to the other half of the threat of centralized information repositories... the 1984 Big Brother scenario assumes the holder of the information wants to control the citizens, but we never considered the information might have leaked to an actor who wants to destroy the citizens. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_hack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_hack [2]: https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-gain-switch-flipping-access-to-us-power-systems/ https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-gain-switch-flipping-acc...