After massive breach Equifax gets $7.25m no-bid IRS contract "prevent fraud"
by Cory Doctorow from on (#343R2)
On September 29, weeks after Equifax admitted to having lost the most sensitive financial and personal information of 143,000,000 Americans (but a week before Equifax admitted that the total was actually 145,500,000) (and counting), the IRS awarded the company a no-bid contract for $7,250,000 to verify taxpayer identities and curtail fraud. (more")