It's worth nothing that such a display of negligence didn't stop the IRS from awarding Equifax a 7 million dollar contract: https://www.politico.com/story/2017

It's worth nothing that such a display of negligence didn't stop the IRS from awarding Equifax a 7 million dollar contract: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/03/equifax-irs-fraud-protection-contract-243419 https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/03/equifax-irs-fraud-... And Equifax is the is same incompetent company providing identification services for healthcare: http://www.specialtycreditreports.com/equifax-contract-healthcaregov-credit-reports/ http://www.specialtycreditreports.com/equifax-contract-healt... Nor did it prevent 18F from awarding a similar multi-million dollar contract to Equifax for login.gov: https://federalnewsradio.com/reporters-notebook-jason-miller/2017/01/ups-downs-continue-gsa-18fs-identity-management-effort/ https://federalnewsradio.com/reporters-notebook-jason-miller... There is no incentive for Equifax to take security seriously.