Hyperventilating reports about Equifax leak:
Credit reporting firm Equifax says data breach could potentially affect 143 million US consumers
Why the Equifax breach is very possibly the worst leak of personal info ever
The Equifax Breach Exposes America’s Identity Crisis
fail to mention that Equifax was selling access to all 143 million stolen credit reports.
Had the hackers, may their skills be blessed, purchased access to the same 143 million credit reports, not a word of alarm would appear in any press report.
Isn’t that odd? You can legally purchase access to “personal identity data” but if you steal it, the foundations of a credit society are threatened.
Equifax doesn’t prevent purchase/use of its data by known criminal organizations, Wells Fargo and its ‘s 2.1 million fake accounts that now totals 3.5 million (oops, overlooked 1.4 million accounts) for example.
Can you see a difference between a stolen credit report and one purchased by Wells Fargo? Or any other entity with paid access to Equifax data?
Another question, can you identify people employed by the DHS, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. from the Equifax data?
PS: Before you lose too much sleep over theft of data already for sale, in the case, Equifax credit reports, consider: How Bad Is the Equifax Hack? by Josephine Wolff.