Equifax had engineers and coders building their hackable site, at the direction of Equifax, within the scope of the law (unless we discover they broke security

Equifax had engineers and coders building their hackable site, at the direction of Equifax, within the scope of the law (unless we discover they broke security regulations). Having regulations with suitable punishments gives the company an incentive to build the site securely, and it would have been skin flecks off their back to do it, but their profit motive and lack of legal incentive meant they didn't care to. If you're really so terrified of the government that you're against security regulations for the website of one of the largest credit card information collectors in America, then you deserved to be hacked too.