Massachusetts sues Equifax for not protecting state residents
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against credit reporting firm Equifax Inc (EFX.N) following a breach that exposed the personal data of as many as 143 million people, including 3 million in the state.
Equifaxs share price has fallen by about one-third since it disclosed the data breach, which included sensitive data like Social Security numbers, on Sept. 7. Equifax shares dipped 0.1 percent to $94.25 on Tuesday.
... Equifax knew about the vulnerabilities in its system for months, but utterly failed to keep the personal information of nearly three million Massachusetts residents safe from hackers, said Healey said in a statement.
... Equifax needs to pay for its mistakes, make our residents whole, and fix the problem so it never happens again, Healey added.
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Suggest that every state in the whole of the USA follow suit! Are you hearing this Gov. Brown?
Curious to know how many are going to pay yet another credit monitoring place to monitor YOU. I've been using creditkarma.com for some time now and monitor myself. They update you quite often has been my experience with them. It is a free service. Feedback anyone out there?
FakeNoose
(32,351 posts)Every executive in Equifax should be fired, along with the IT managers.
Maybe their replacements will do their effing jobs.
CountAllVotes
(20,854 posts)No sh*t! To hell w/them and the latest push to join Life Lock or some such sh*t!
ENOUGH! Sue the hell out of these SOB's!!
infullview
(978 posts)Sure you can sue Equifax and you probably should just to make an example of them. As far as making it up to the people who's data they leaked, well, I'm afraid there's no way to do that. I look forward to having my credit report frozen for the rest of my life and having to go through the inconvenience of explicitly lifting the freeze every time I want to purchase a new big-ticket item, or to refinance, or to get a home equity loan, or to apply for a new credit card, etc..Equifax SUCKS!
BTW I've had to deal with them in the past when my [now ex] wife went to NY and had a book of checks stolen. I contacted the bank and reported the theft and had them put a stop payment on this range of checks. About a year went by and all of a sudden I'm getting hate mail from TU, Experian, and Equifax. My bank's head of security sent them all a letter with their embossed seal indicating that this was a reported theft. TU, and Experian accepted this. Equifax demanded that I send them a sample of my hand writing to prove my innocence and continued demanding I pay them. FU Equifax! I hope you go out of business!
CountAllVotes
(20,854 posts)You are not alone. If it helps any at all, their stock is tanking nicely.
FUCKERS!
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)...
(I can't even finish my own analogy)
CountAllVotes
(20,854 posts)For the next 90-days I have a fraud alert placed.
I don't feel like paying LIFELOCK or whoever money for stealing info. on me if that happened.
Who received a letter?
I did not receive a letter. Did you?