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A comment on US Senate report on Equifax breach [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:US Senate report on Equifax breach [pdf] by sl1ck731 on Saturday June 22, 2019 @04:00PM (#20251441)
New SSN and a personal Equifax "slave" to update it anywhere and everywhere its used in my life would be a good start.

They can offer a couple years of their BS identity protection, but your identity is ruined forever. Your SSN doesn't rotate or expire. There should be no time limit on any remedy they provide.

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Re:US Senate report on Equifax breach [pdf] by kalenx on Saturday June 22, 2019 @05:58PM (#20251930)
Can they actually provide new SSN? I mean, these are government issued, and I'm not inclined to think that the government will suddenly allow 3M people (basically 10% of the country) to suddenly change SSN. I fail to see what the bank can do about it.
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Re:US Senate report on Equifax breach [pdf] by sl1ck731 on Saturday June 22, 2019 @06:46PM (#20252111)
Exactly. If they can't properly remedy the situation regarding data they choose to keep then they never should have been allowed to be in business at all.
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