The Incompetent Revenue Service

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The only kind of contract Equifax should be getting is the one where someone pays them lots of money to never touch data again. Here's a million dollars now get the fuck out of business. Obviously that is not the kind of contract the IRS awarded them, much to the IRS' dismay. I don't know what the IRS was expecting. (This may be old news, but still, what WERE they thinking?)

Credentials that strain credulity

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No, I'm not fucking with you, they actually used those credentials for a web portal for managing credit disputes. These people are too stupid to be allowed to hoard the nation's credit information.

If you thought the amount was disappointing before...

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Getting a measly $125 as compensation for a data breach that affected nearly half of the US may seem bad enough, but when you figure in that they only earmarked about $31 million for that payout (for 145 million people) then you start to realize that the math doesn't work out. Apparently people have started to realize that problem and now it seems that $125 is a pipe dream. Some have even suggested that the whole thing was a bait-and-switch scam.

Also cheaper than the alternative

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Equifax failed to apply patches. It's going to cost them over a billion dollars. Don't be like Equifax.