Equifax's App Has Disappeared From Apple's App Store and Google Play (fastcompany.com)

From a report: Equifax's mobile app has been removed from both the iOS and Google Play app stores. According to data from AppAnnie, the app was taken down the same day Equifax announced its massive security breach (September 7). Now customers no longer have access to Equifax Mobile. For example, when iOS users attempt to access the app, they receive a pop-up requiring them to update the program. The pop-up directs users to the App Store -- where they are informed the Equifax app is no longer available. We don't know why the app came down, though Fast Company has confirmed Apple was not involved with the decision to remove Equifax from the App Store.

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Probably winding up the company

[The123king]

After a breach that big, it's hard to see them coming out of the other side as a financially sound company. Especially since it's an agency the deals with credit ratings. If you can't trust them to keep your data secure, is there any point having business with them?

I'll be here waiting for the news of their bankruptcy

Re:Probably winding up the company

[DarkOx]

See honestly its hard for me to see how they will be financially hurt by the breach.

A lot of noise has been made by execs selling stock. The thing is look at the pattern of these big breaches. All the major one have pretty much regained their market cap at some point. TJX, Target, Home Depot, PF Changs, the list goes on. Those are retail and by and would be pretty easy for consumers to avoid if they really cared to do so. They don't. The market has actually said breaches don't matter! There is a short term panic where everyone stays away and than they rapidly forget, and return to their old habits.

Equifax is better positioned then retail to weather this. I mean sure you can decide you are not paying to have you FICO score included on your annual free credit report! Wow that'll show'em! Its a tiny portion of their business. Otherwise their customers are not consumers but corporate lenders and large employers. In the end they care if the data they are getting on YOU is accurate, not how well its controlled. They will either go with the cheapest mostly reliable source or they are using multiple agencies and will probably continue to use Equifax.

Personally the CXOs that sold stock are probably smart, they know they can take profits today and probably buy it back cheaper next month sometime and ride it all the way back up to previous levels! Why because the fundamentals have not changed any so its almost a sure bet. Heck the moment I hear CONgress isnt going to do something crazy i'll probably buy too! Pretty much some kind of government intervention is the only thing that could actually hurt them as result of this.

the real problem there....

[Anonymous Coward]

The real problem isn't "the equifax app", whatever the fuck that is. The real problem is:

For example, when iOS users attempt to access the app, they receive a pop-up requiring them to update the program. The pop-up directs users to the App Store -- where they are informed the Equifax app is no longer available.

Do not allow ANY company that much control over your computing environment. If they don't abuse it today, they will tomorrow. Today it may be some stupid shit you don't care about. Tomorrow it will be something you do.

Personal computing used to be in the hands of its owners. If we all decide it's OK to give that control away and centralize all decision making, that is saying China has the right model about centralized control, and the model that existed from the dawn of the personal computing era in the 1970's that empowered users instead of companies was wrong.