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For what it is worth to others thinking of doing the same thing, I too took Equifax to small claims court in Santa Barbara. They sent a lawyer from their legal
by paultannenbaum 9y ago
For what it is worth to others thinking of doing the same thing, I too took Equifax to small claims court in Santa Barbara.
They sent a lawyer from their legal team to the initial hearing. I presented a lot of the similar arguments that were presented here, but the judge denied my claim based on not being able to prove negligence on the part of Equifax.
- prklmn 9y agoDid you talk about them being a negligent steward of your data, and not patching a 2 month old bug? They admitted this https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/massive-equifax-breach-caused-by-failure-to-patch-two-month-old-bug/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/massi...
- g051051 9y agoNegligence would be if they knew about the bug but ignored it, which per a later Bloomberg article isn't what happened. Instead, there was a process failure so that they thought the bug was patched, when it wasn't.