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Well the USG won't do anything. The IRS got hacked in September 2016 and the tool that got hacked didn't get shut off until March 2017. The IRS kept a breached tool running for 6 months before turning it off. And when Congress asked why they couldn't answer.
People have started to experience data loss and theft in a new way. Breaches have settled into a kind of modern malaise, akin to traffic or errands. They are so frequent and so massive that the whole process has become routine.
With over half of the entire U.S. adult population potentially exposed by the Equifax breach, what’s left to do but shrug and sigh?
Equifax appears to have leaned into the new malaise, treating this massive breach with the bureaucratic apathy one might expect from a big, faceless credit-reporting agency—a company everyone must use, but no one chooses to.
More than anything, it suggests that a corner has been turned in corporate consumer data responsibility. Like severe weather, breaches have become so frequent and severe that they can begin receding from prominence. No matter their grievous effects, Equifax’s response suggests that fatalism might replace responsibility, planning, and foresight. This is just what happens now.
The new normal. Until the next new normal. Isn't technology great?
They should ALL go to prison! They were making sure to sell off their stocks quietly before telling anyone that Equifax had been breached. I hope that the same kinds of horrible things happens to them and their families that happened to Bernie Madoff's.
Well the USG won't do anything. The IRS got hacked in September 2016 and the tool that got hacked didn't get shut off until March 2017. The IRS kept a breached tool running for 6 months before turning it off. And when Congress asked why they couldn't answer.
I think a lot of the time, the Govt refuses to take legal action mainly due to what would come out during a public trial, they would not be able to keep all that secret from the public.
Sort of reminds of the case against Gary McKinnon from the UK, if they had tried him in court, all the details would have come out and that would have been worse than the hacking he did.
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