Beware of Equifax, Thank you Last Week Tonight with John Oliver HBO

John Oliv­er of Last Week Tonight on HBO dis­cuss­es the mas­sive impact of the cyber­se­cu­ri­ty breach at Equifax and their mas­sive­ly mis­guid­ed attempts to mit­i­gate the damage.

This issue is deeply trou­bling to me because I was affect­ed in a neg­a­tive way. Cur­rent­ly, Equifax believes my per­son­al infor­ma­tion has been “impact­ed.”

Would this have hap­pened if Con­gress cre­at­ed a law requir­ing @Equifax to pay $1000 to every per­son effect­ed by their neg­li­gence? pic.twitter.com/A1WE8EkLNU

— Nick (@cernak) Octo­ber 9, 2017

If you missed John Oliv­er’s show last night, I high­ly encour­age you to see how neg­li­gent and mis­guid­ed Equifax real­ly is. Their job, in part, is the pro­tec­tion of every­one’s sen­si­tive pri­vate infor­ma­tion. It’s not that hard real­ly. I could have done a bet­ter job with secu­ri­ty than their entire IT depart­ment but at only a frac­tion of the cost.

Who knows how much time and resources I will need to pro­tect my iden­ti­ty for the rest of my life. Equifax needs to make this right and finan­cial­ly com­pen­sate me for their gross neg­li­gence. It’s not like Equifax is hurt­ing for mon­ey, they mint­ed an impres­sive report­ed prof­it of $132.8 mil­lion in 2016 alone.

Note: This lan­guage is col­or­ful and might not be suit­ed for young ones.

What can you do about it?

Go to the web­site www.equifaxfraudreport.com

Imi­ta­tion is the sin­cer­est form of flat­tery. — Charles Caleb Colton