Why is no one taking this issue seriously? I tried to tell some of my coworkers about it and they all brushed it off...

Why is no one taking this issue seriously? I tried to tell some of my coworkers about it and they all brushed it off. One guy even told me to stop being a conspiracy theorist. Are people just too stupid to comprehend the importance of what's happening?

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equifax.com/PortugalSitemap.xml
equifax.com/UruguaySitemap.xml
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equifax.com/productDemos/debtStackingDemo.html
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15195510
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I'm interested in this subject. Any more information on it.
About your coworkers, I assume people don't like to think about things that force them to stress. I've been there before.

Because Sup Forums doesn't talk about interesting stuff, only shit like blacked threads, China hate, women hate and communism general

A lot of people are just completely blind to the implications. It's not even a conspiracy theory, half the US potentially being compromised is massive and could introduce the instability necessary to collapse the entire system and raise China as the financial leader.

>mother is ocd and marks out our names and shit on magazines and other marketing materials using a permanent marker.
>we dont live in some terrible neighborhood with people going thru our trash.
>tell her all this info is more likely to get stolen thru a hacking incident and her habit is a waste of time
>this happens

What can I do to protect myself

this
why fucking car about your credit score and shit when some hundred hackers have your SNN, ccs, EVERYTHING in some database just waiting to be used for criminal shit

Wear a tinfoil hat

This thing is a pretty big fucking deal.

what did they get hacked? jfc

I have no credit cards because I'm NEET am I safe?

Freeze credit.

You've got one now.

Nothing

im not really sure but you had anything associated with equifax you have had your info leaked
the top 3 ceos sold their shares of the company before telling anyone they were hacked, so you can bet this is fucking big
and yes you might be if you bought a phone, house, car, etc

might not be*

no house or car and my phone is one of those ones you get at walmart and add time to with cards. I tried checking my credit score a month ago when I was applying for an apartment and I don't think it could even find me.

fine take my pennies. I don't fucking care anymore.

Wait just got on here from a marathon xcom 2. Basic gestalt on whats happening please

>Had to get an equifax verification a few weeks ago for some insurance shit
>they told me they had nothing for me in their system and that I needed to send them some documents
>lady on the phone was confusing as fuck and kind of a cunt
>said fuck it, hung up, and just handled in directly with my insurance provider
>this happens

wew lad and top level insider trading to boot. what a colossal fuck up.

debit card?
if no id say you are pretty clear

hackers hacked equifax servers months ago and stole SSNs, ccs, ANYTHING of 140 million people

being a worthless neet saves me again
how about that

Sup Forums told me credit scores as just a way for jews to show whos a good goyim and whos a BAD GOYIM

oh, yeah

putting in the last 6 of your ssn + last name into their newly created "WE DONE FUCKED UP, HERE'S A YEAR OF FREE CREDIT MONITORING" waives your right to a class-action lawsuit. so don't do that. or, do. whatever.

motherfuckers still charging money for me to freeze Equifax report. faggots. what sucks is the information leaked could be used against you and, subsequently reported to transunion and experian as well. if some dumb motherfucker gets my SSN and fucks my credit with hard inquiries i'll be mad. not the end of the world. i'm sure with this at least invalid inquiries / fraudulent new accounts will at least be given some leeway during appeal / report process lmao

fuck them, calling us "consumers" as if it's a product we chose to purchase

equifax is prolly just lying to get people to sign up for their shit credit monitoring service

>anything associated with a SSN*
This literally affects half the US.

Because I don't believe there was actually a fucking hack. I think it's a fucking scheme by Equifax to push their credit protection services, or possibly more sinister than that (replacement of the SSN system with something easier to track the people with).

...

chips soon
mark of the beast

why wont god just stay out of our fucking way
everyone is doing fine and he's like
>OH NOO THEY DONE FORGOT MUH FAIRY TALE, BETTER MOVE THAT STRING OF EVENTS FORWARD AN INCH, REMBAH THE 6 GORRILION SATANS
what the fuck is his problem

user what the fuck are you even on about

...

Russians will use your details to send you 5 times as many Viagra spam emails

just

Become a neet.
WHO'S LAUGHING NOW FUCKERS?!

>just wage cuck problems

I heard they are already pushing their credit protection to people trying to verify if they were hacked.

Read the fineprint.

I would be hesitant signing up for anything that could forfeit your right to sue.

Congrats user you just signed away your right to sue if the hack is real.

just claim the hackers took your information and did it, you didnt do it

really? i didn't enroll yet though, they just gave me a date

it gave me one of these dates

Like anyone can do anything with a bajillion SSNs.

ikr a five pack on alphabay was like 1 dollar

Yes really. Read the fine print. You entered your information, you waved your right to sue should this shit go south.
The very notion that you trusted this company with literally a single letter of your first name after there was an alleged hack of all the most intimate personal information a company can legally have on you signifies a severe lack in your ability to think logically.
Put the SSN's in a queue. Next one in queue you register a couple of pre-approved 500 dollar credit cards. Once that SSN is dried up, either via investigation or freeze, the next one in queue takes its turn. Rinse and repeat for the rest of your life.

TL;DR
>company takes your personal information, including SSNs, credit card numbers, credit history, home address, etc, and gathers it without your consent
>puts it all in a database without your consent
>it gets hacked
>your personal information (read: the information of 148 million americans, half the population and most of the adult pop, probably includes you personally) is now public knowledge for criminals
The above is all legal btw. Equifax won't be held accountable. But it gets worse.

>Equifax executives KNEW about the breach months in advance and sold their stock (insider trading)
>now that it's come out, they held onto their money but the data has likely been sold and spread around through various back channels so many times it can't be traced anymore
>a proper investigation is now impossible

All things considered some Equifax execs will likely get slapped by the SEC for insider trading, but NOTHING will happen due to the data breach. Really telling about who the laws exist to protect.

Equifax is a shit company anyway, they hire thousands of temp workers, drug addicts, etc. and don't give a shit if the data they handle is secure or not. People who work there can look at data, fax and scan it whenever they want. Again, without your consent. And it's all legal. They'll emerge from this relatively unscathed. Meanwhile ordinary Americans get fucked over because they can't afford "credit protection" to prevent fraud.

>the top 3 ceos sold their shares of the company before telling anyone they were hacked, so you can bet this is fucking big
wwll... sheeeeet

they are going to be found suicided with 148 million bullets to the back of their ass

>implying there was a hack and they didn't sell because they know what's about to happen

>possibly more sinister than that (replacement of the SSN system with something easier to track the people with).

tell me how things can go south if i enroll in this program that is supposed to prevent that

i'm not saying i'm gonna enroll in it

The credit protection program doesn't do what it says it does, which is the case for literally all credit protection programs. Or you just don't enroll in the program at all, but you've still waived your right to sue should some asshole put you 10,000 dollars in debt.

take a big credit now before someone ruin your score obv.

Hope the system crashes so you don't have to pay back

Yeah, except commit fraud on a scale so massive and constant it invalidates any ability for SSNs to act as an identifier.

You're looking at this the wrong way. Even if someone can't make money off this (which they can, but let's ignore that), they can still cause chaos. All they have to do is commit so much fraud so often that places stop trusting Social Security Numbers as ID. And the best part is, it can all be automated. This sort of thing has already happened with robocalls that spoof phone numbers completely invalidating the Do Not Call List. Did you know? Most of these calls don't even have automated ad content in them, they just hang up immediately. There are many parties that have a vested interest in destabilizing the US and this is just yet another way of doing so.

Mark my words, this issue will eventually bring back the debate about how SSNs are a shit form of ID and about creating national ID cards. Democrats will be for it, Republicans against it. Yet another partisan wedge issue to divide the country with.

It is though.
If a service requires you to "buy" using credits, then it's not worth it.
Only pay with cash you actually own whenever possible.

>Democrats will be for
>national ID cards
>dont even want voting cards
nigger....

how did i waive my right to sue?

did u see my screenshot or go through the enrollment process?

there is no link to terms of service because enrollment isnt even available yet

i didn't click "I agree" or do any checkboxes at all

are you just trying to FUD me or does it say somewhere i dont even have to agree to anything

This is what I was thinking.

>empty space between each line of text
serious question, why is this fucking allowed

how can we all get rich on this, can we do a Sup Forums class action lawsuit

They will want national ID because
>gives more power to the federal government
>increases reliance of average citizen on federal-level institutions
>lets them make the ID compulsory (social security technically isn't)
>is a precursor to stricter background checks on guns
>the Republicans will inevitably be against it

While Republicans will be against it because of the classic "it's the mark of the beast!" angle. Also because such a program would require tons of federal spending, restrict the power of states, and require individuals to do something against their will. And because the Democrats will be for it of course.

Really grinds my gears.

>Me rn thinking the same shit.

Also, I'll note that federal ID is different from voter ID because voter ID is state-based. All elections in the US are run by the states, remember. A federal ID card isn't like state voter ID. This gets them through the mental gymnastics required to support such a measure.

bro voices in my head been telling me the same thing between calling me a faggot

It takes some digging, but it's in the terms of service for TrustedID. Another user found it earlier, I wish I had saved the screencap.
They don't have to link you to the terms of service for you to agree to them.
You'd never be able to prove the identity theft you're suffering from is directly involved with the alleged hack. Any class action lawsuit would fail regardless, it would still cost Equifax a lot of money to deal with so they want to make sure as few people have the ability to take that route.

Anons on Sup Forums really have no idea how bad this is. Be it a real hack or a scheme for something else, it's bad, and it's happening. But what do I know, I'm just some guy on Sup Forums.

>the top 3 ceos sold their shares of the company before telling anyone they were hacked, so you can bet this is fucking big
Does that count as insider trading? Seems pretty fucking illegal.

They are. You can check on a website they set up specifically to help you see if your information was leaked. Whether it was or it wasn't, they recommend their "credit protection service". They even give you a year of it for free if you were hacked - as if you'll just magically be okay after a year. No, what it really is is a trail offer. A way of saying "hey, pay up or you're fucked, first year's free but after that you'd better fork it over".

I will reiterate once again, this is all perfectly legal and a-ok.

okay, well then I guess I would have to actually finish enrollment then

yes

equifax.com/robots.txt


Disallow: /uiTest/
Disallow: /siteAssets/
Disallow: /US/PSOL/
Disallow: /productDemos/debtStackingDemo.html
Disallow: /debtwiseoffer/
Disallow: /tracking/
Disallow: /us/
Disallow:/psol/
Disallow:/cs7/Satellite
Disallow:/cs7/BlobServer

Disallow: /wp-content/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wordpress/
Disallow: /pages/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /personal/login

Sitemap: equifax.com/ArgentinaSitemap.xml
Sitemap: equifax.com/CanadaSitemap.xml
Sitemap: equifax.com/ElSalvadorSitemap.xml
Sitemap: equifax.com/PeruSitemap.xml
Sitemap: equifax.com/PortugalSitemap.xml
Sitemap: equifax.com/UruguaySitemap.xml
Sitemap: equifax.com/personal/sitemap.xml

ARE THOSE FUCKING DEV URLS?

ON THEIR ROBOTS.TXT?

>Seems pretty fucking illegal.
>I will reiterate once again, this is all perfectly legal and a-ok.
im getting mixed signals

Basically it's huge and that's why no one cares. There is nothing anyone can do because it's a fucked up insecure system and some company that will never pay any consequences. So who cares if 140,000,000 people have their Social security number, renting/home ownership, employment, name/relationship etc data out in the open for anyone to commit identity theft easily

>/uiTest/
>/cs7/Satellite
wew lad
also
>wordpress
are we sure this isnt just a blog stealing info?

Don't. You have the ability and the right, for now, as a citizen to check your credit score for free every year. Check your credit reports immediately after the holiday season, I recommend doing so around January 3-4. You'll need to do this every year for the rest of your life if you want to be truly protected.
Do not use Credit Karma, they sell your information to third parties.

Yes, it does.
>Insider trading is the buying or selling of a security by someone who has access to material nonpublic information about the security.
Textbook example. The executives likely had nonpublic knowledge about the breach and thus sold their shares beforehand without informing the public first.

Of course they may slither out of it in a few ways. They could argue that the selling of shares wasn't due to the breach and they were unaware of it. Or they could argue that they weren't aware of it, sold their shares for an unrelated reason, and became aware later.

The scum-like business practice, collection of personal info without consent, and protection racket scheme by Equifax is totally legal. The insider trading by some executives is not. The few insider-trading executives will likely get bitch slapped by the SEC but the corporation that allowed all of this to happen in the first place will be just fine, and will probably gain from this because of the free exposure for their credit protection program.

>The executives likely had nonpublic knowledge about the breach and thus sold their shares beforehand without informing the public first.
man it feels like these people are so incompetent that they'd be able to just not tell their executives about a major breach for a couple of weeks

Nah, it's legit. The links work. Check it out:
equifax.com/productDemos/debtStackingDemo.html

What is happening? That OP gave us lots of info.

Read the thread ahmed.

Apparently London has fallen to a pack of Muslims

TL;DR Credit rating company gathers critical personal data of half the American population, it gets hacked and data is now out in the open. Executives knew about the breach but didn't tell anyone, instead sold their stock in the company beforehand so they didn't lose money when it eventually took a dive.

it's usually an easy vector of attack, common dev mistake

Perhaps some interesting bits to find in there:

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15195510

(Yes, I know, they're libtard Central, but sometimes the info is okay.)

Again ?

Sure I was just joking about actually enrolling, and I can't find where it says I cannot sue Equifax, though I see something in the arbitration section about not being able to sue TrustedID, Inc.. I'm just trying to see if this arbitration business is FUD or legit. I check my credit scores regularly anyways.

>Wordpress URLS

Equifax uses fucking wordpress. Kill yourself American Financial schlomos. A pack of muslims with an IQ of 50 combined could of made this hack

wordpress isn't the issue

our data aren't static assets stored on wordpress

>China hate not interesting
What the fuck is wrong wit you?

And these executive wont go to jail because their bank accounts render them above the law.

There goes the US economy. Guess all the people panic buying the past few days worked in the financial sector. No wonder everyone has been dumping their stocks.

Bump

Change your mother's maiden name.

Check the g thread I dumped too much info. one of the bigger bombshells is the work number see the g thread for more but if you have ever worked then your entire record was leaked so not only did they get your usual ssn address etc but also got your background check and employment records for every place you've ever worked and salary history. that was just the beginning, the rabbit hole goes much deeper, didn't even get the chance to start exploring some other stuff like Certigy and Identity Report For Landlords which is for "Verify consumer identity, credit worthiness, criminal history, rental history, eviction history, employment background and verification", and more importantly Equifax Workforce Solutions is "one of the contractors hired by the United States Department of Health and Human Services to work on the HealthCare.gov web site".
also credit protection is only reactionary, get ahead of the problem by freezing and flagging for fraud.

>if you have ever worked
Even if you were under 18 at the time?

Bump.