Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
by herewulf on Friday September 08, 2017 @06:15PM
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My SSN won't change for my lifetime, so really they need to pay that cost of monitoring. Equifax, you owe me $23,392.20. It's in your interest to pay upfront to avoid the cost of inflation.
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Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
by dragonwriter on Friday September 08, 2017 @06:21PM
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> My SSN won't change for my lifetime
This breach, I suspect, makes that less likely to be true. After all, one of the few reasons a new SSN can be issued to someone who has one is “A victim of identity theft continues to be disadvantaged by using the original number”.
https://faq.ssa.gov/link/portal/34011/34019/Article/3789/Can...
Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
by tedmiston on Saturday September 09, 2017 @01:22PM
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It would be interesting to see how they define "continues to" and "disadvantaged by" here. It sounds like it may be implying that multiple occurrences of issues need to happen and just knowing that your data's been breached, but not yet abused, could be insufficient qualifications for "disadvantaged by".