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flibbitygiblets

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1. they stand to make a mint off this breach

Reply to Dark n Stormy Knight (Original post)

Mon Sep 18, 2017, 06:55 AM

Sep 2017

Between the fees to freeze/ unfreeze accounts, plus folks signing up for their "free " monitoring service that auto renews in a year, at which point is no longer free, plus folks paying every month for their full credit reports (we get one free a year, thanks to Obama, but that's not really good enough anymore). We're at risk for life because our SSNs are hacked, and guess who stands to make $$$ based on our efforts to protect ourselves?

Don't get me started on Equifax execs dumping their stock LONG before any of this went public...

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Equifax had patch 2 months before hack and didnt install it, security group says [View all] Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2017 OP

they stand to make a mint off this breach flibbitygiblets Sep 2017 #1

I doubt they will make money, I'd expect them to lose corporate clients Amishman Sep 2017 #2

$10 per freeze X 143M people flibbitygiblets Sep 2017 #3

Except they are waiving those fees Amishman Sep 2017 #4

Can you tell me how to do that? Because I called Equifax and there was no way to do that flibbitygiblets Sep 2017 #5

I don't care about their bottom line. I care that they are getting citizens' money for Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2017 #6