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This is just about as delicate an information-security problem as the world has faced. It'd be one thing if you got a letter in the mail re: your personal expo
by rotrux 9y ago
This is just about as delicate an information-security problem as the world has faced.
It'd be one thing if you got a letter in the mail re: your personal exposure, but there's a very serious assumption that everyone is glossing over:
Do you want EVERYONE to know more about what Equifax lost about EVERYONE &, more importantly, you want it RIGHT NOW?
Well I guess so do I; the easier for me to ruin you and all your friends' credit & then get me a new-new sweeeet new yacht 4 to cruise around in some tropical country without an extradition treaty.
Mass disclosure before adequate protection or remediation measures (assuming any are possible) is IRRESPONSIBLE BC INFORMATION IS REALLY POWERFUL...this includes more metadata about what Equifax lost. You don't know what disclosure right-now will expose you to. This seems pretty clearly like an "err on the side of caution" situation.
- jacquesm 9y agoThat's easy: assume they have everything. So whatever is in your credit report, possibly including items so far back that your credit report would not longer list them is out there. If it were anything less, if there were any good news at all then you can bet it would be trumpeted from the highest towers. Only in the very worst of cases is there nothing positive left to spin.
- mratzloff 9y agoIt's been five months since it was publicly announced.
- rotrux 9y ago5 months is prly not enough time to fix whatever hell this would unleash. I'll stop short of saying Equifax doesn't need to be scared of bad press, but I will say the silence around this is at least partially to protect the people whose data was stolen.