Article 31NDA Equifax's dox of America: Sign up for "free" monitoring, get billed forever

Equifax's dox of America: Sign up for "free" monitoring, get billed forever

by
Cory Doctorow
from on (#31NDA)

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Equifax dumped dox on 143 million Americans (as well as lucky Britons and Canadians!), sat on the news for five weeks, let its execs sell millions in stock, and then unveiled an unpatched, insecure Wordpress site with an abusive license agreement where you could sign up for "free" credit monitoring for a year, in case someone used the immortal, immutable Social Security Number that Equifax lost control over to defraud you. (more")

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