1. A bunch of people may bought "Credit Protection" from these companies to protect against criminals - who never had access to the data 2. Equifax, and other

1. A bunch of people may bought "Credit Protection" from these companies to protect against criminals - who never had access to the data 2. Equifax, and other CIOs, will use this as an excuse for the piss poor security practice and data collection by crying "It was done by a super sophisticated nation state, there's nothing we could have done", while leaving logins on the equivalent of admin:admin 3. Who knows who has this information and what they could be doing to weaponize it.