About 143m customers affected by massive Equifax cyber incident - BBC News

And yet here we are :-)

Sgt Wayne Wood - I know I just been a victim of identity theft before I don't wish that on anyone.

Yeah... i do contract IT work for an accounting firm... the number of compromised IRS accounts has been rising steadily...

I can only see it rising from here. The problem with the web is it was firmly designed with the philosophy of easy access of information and no matter how good you improve security there is always a back door somewhere

Shut up, Carl!

Sgt Wayne Wood - The hackers got every piece of data that you need to create identities, from 143 MILLION PEOPLE. I would say that Equifax will be facing a HUGE class action lawsuit, and there really isn't any defense they can put up...

This is also NOT their first rodeo...