Here's a question. What if based on this hack and others, someone decides to publicly post all the details they are aware of. So basically I can go on a website

Here's a question. What if based on this hack and others, someone decides to publicly post all the details they are aware of. So basically I can go on a website and look up all the hacked SSNs and the person and their information associated with that. How will the US cope with that? The reason I ask that question is that it's definitely not gonna happen. But it's arguably a lot better than the situation right now where we have a few malicious actors who do have that information. If the data was completely public I feel you'd have a huge effort to fix the problem bwcahwe your neighbor can look up your credit worthiness. Yet I think the situation right now is worse because we won't have that effort to fix the problem yet 95% of the people who would have caused you problems have that data.