Re:U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Acti...
by rgbrenner on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:08AM
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That is not an apt analogy.
The resources of a nation state were not required to hack equifax.. a kid with a laptop could have done it.
This is a consumer trust and safety issue because basic care was not taken to protect the data that Equifax was trusted with guarding.
If it turns out that a nation state is the one that carried out the hack.. then that's a national security issue AND a consumer trust and safety issue. But that doesn't excuse gross incompetence.
The resources of a nation state were not required to hack equifax.. a kid with a laptop could have done it.
This is a consumer trust and safety issue because basic care was not taken to protect the data that Equifax was trusted with guarding.
If it turns out that a nation state is the one that carried out the hack.. then that's a national security issue AND a consumer trust and safety issue. But that doesn't excuse gross incompetence.