Its earlier fear was for _its own data_, where it had skin in the game: "Investigators from the company and the FBI came to view events at Equifax as potentially a huge theft of data—not of consumers’ personal data, as happened with the subsequent 2017 hacking of Equifax’s files, but of confidential business information."

Loss of info it collected on the rest of us is no skin off its nose and falls under the Don't Care category.