Equifax dumped dox on 143 million Americans (as well as lucky Britons and Canadians!), sat on the news for five weeks, let its execs sell millions in stock, and then unveiled an unpatched, insecure WordPress site with an abusive license agreement where you could sign up for “free” credit monitoring for a year, in case someone used the immortal, immutable Social Security Number that Equifax lost control over to defraud you.
Your SSN is vulnerable forever, but Equifax’s “protection” only lasts a year – surely there’s an oversight there?
Not at all! To get your “free” monitoring from Equifax, you have to provide a credit card, and if you somehow forget to cancel your “free” service a year from now, Equifax will simply start billing you…forever.
