The breach is ironic, considering that many customers come to Equifax after being victimized from other services. Companies whose customer databases are hacked often give a free year of credit monitoring, one of the major services Equifax provides, as consolation. Victims of the massive 2014 hack of the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management, for instance, were given Equifax services to help monitor potential identity theft.
Love irony. I bet this will be used (among other hacks) to get the US to create a new super secure citizen’s ID. It was probably the CIA or NSA or whoever in our government that did it.