Equifax Hack Included Nearly 11 Million US Driver's Licenses

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The latest reports from the massive Equifax hack is that the stolen records included 10.9 million driver's licenses from U.S. citizens. While your driver's license isn't exactly personal identification, having that information makes it that much easier to impersonate you. Equifax is also now reporting that the records of 15.2 million UK records were also lost.

This story keeps getting bigger and bigger, from the initial hack, to the CEO retiring, and the claim that it was the fault of 1 employee, it doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. The article goes on to state that in Washington, it costs $20 to get a new license with a new number, while that doesn't sound too bad, if you think of that $20 as the average that is $218 million dollars for replacement driver's licenses that Equifax had compromised.

What does this mean? Well, websites and services that previously used licenses as a way of verifying identity should no longer do so, since millions of them are now in the wild. Unfortunately, you can't really make them stop - but you can report your license stolen.
 
I want to be a lead plaintiff on the lawsuit against those idiots at Equifax.

I had to stamp out a newly opened bogus $25K line of credit issued to me yesterday by Barclay's. Who knows how many future issues that I will have to deal with considering key information never changes?
 
Having been in the banking and credit business for over 35 years, I have rarely seen any executive to have to serve time. They always bail with their golden parachutes. They can even conveniently point their finger to some poor IT employee. ... who will never work in that capacity again.
 
Do people not know what Equifax does and who uses them?


Of course drivers licenses would have been exposed, as were the associated credit reports, names, addresses and any public information.
 
Son of a bitch. I just got my license renewed in June too.
 
Sure glad the US mandated that driver's licenses had to meet the Real-ID act to make sure the licenses weren't forged and used to allow terrorists to fly.

So is Equifax guilty of assisting terrorism by allowing driver's license information into the wild? Might be good for some of those former officials with Chief in their title to have an extended tour of scenic Gitmo.
 
Exercate said:
Having been in the banking and credit business for over 35 years, I have rarely seen any executive to have to serve time. They always bail with their golden parachutes. They can even conveniently point their finger to some poor IT employee. ... who will never work in that capacity again.
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I make $35M a year because I'm a god who has to insure everything goes right at this company. If I wasn't here there is no way the company could succeed!

<Aide whispers in ear>

A massive data breach when our only job as a data company is to secure it? Clearly that's not my oversight, that's Bob down in IT.
 
At this point, is less stressful to just change all my passwords to 1234 and be happy that hackers are nice enough to make free backups of all my data.
 
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