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This really pisses me off. It's only a matter of time before some random person opens up a cellphone, utlity, or bank account... or worse. Completely messed up. Everyone American should be scared shitless at this incompetence. It's going to cost everyone thousands of dollars over their lives for credit fraud protection. Just another expense to add.
I hadn't heard about this last site. How did morons take it down? Or is that suppose to mean that morons put it up? English...
If I were the real hacker, I would prove it by leaking information that wasn't already public. If I were someone pretending to be the real hacker, I would show a screenshot of SSNs that I could find with Google (e.g. Kim Kardashian, Donald Trump, and Bill Gates).
This really pisses me off. It's only a matter of time before some random person opens up a cellphone, utlity, or bank account... or worse. Completely messed up. Everyone American should be scared shitless at this incompetence. It's going to cost everyone thousands of dollars over their lives for credit fraud protection. Just another expense to add.
It's also extortion. "Please pay us money to solve the massive problem we created." I don't know how it's legal.
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Dunno why, but just surprised that Kim K's credit score with Equifax is 643. Unrelated, sorry.
Goes to show how silly credit scores are
The reason is that they mean little for those with tons of money - but they mean everything for the average person with limited money.
They literally keep the poor poor.
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It's also extortion. "Please pay us money to solve the massive problem we created." I don't know how it's legal.
Not saying it would be great in the short term, but I wonder how it would play out if the entire database was made widely available. It seems like it would be a lot harder to enforce a debt if the borrower was originally identified based on "secrets" that were well known to be public at the time. Maybe then they would come up with a better authentication scheme than "what color was your first car?"
What would an accurate "what if" scenario like this look like?
I recently sent in an application to Equifax to get my credit score along with all the security documents, proof of address, passport, drivers license, registered mail etc. and they rejected my application because I didn't provide a hydro bill. Unfortunately, I live in an apartment and I don't pay hydro, so I sent in a copy of the lease agreement instead but that wasn't good enough :(
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