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Equifax Breach Included 10 Million US Driving Licenses (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the saga-continues dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: 10.9 million U.S. driver's licenses were stolen in the massive breach that Equifax suffered in mid-May, according to a new report by The Wall Street Journal. In addition, WSJ has revealed that the attackers got a hold of 15.2 million UK customers' records, though only 693,665 among them had enough info in the system for the breach to be a real threat to their privacy. Affected customers provided most of the driver's licenses on file to verify their identities when they disputed their credit-report information through an Equifax web page. That page was one of the entry points the attackers used to gain entry into the credit reporting agency's system.

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  1. It's not just credit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The information can be used to file taxes. When one gets those "your taxes have already been filed" letters from the IRS is because someone used your SSN and other information and filed taxes to get a refund and other credits.

    That information is also used to get jobs. Illegal aliens use fake credentials to get jobs - and file taxes to get refunds and EIC, CTC, ACTC, AOTC or other credits.

    That information is also used for other nefarious reasons.

    And if that information is abused, it's up to the victim to correct it - if they can - and cover the costs.

    And most of the things that are done last forever. Even debt. Debt collectors are all unethical sacks of shit and they'll bully folks to pay to debt that isn't there's - including folks who have had their identities stolen. So, after having to deal with the identity theft, you will have to deal with assholes who will lie about the law to collect on debt that isn't yours.

    Suck it up my fellow peon.

    Equifax should be shut down, their C-level executives fired without pay, pensions or golden parachutes and the stockholders have their shares valued worthless - they shouldn't have invested in a company with an unethical business model and deserve the bad karma.

    I have been victim of Anthem's (lying cocksuckers) break-in, Equfax' (unethical lying fucks) and another one - I'm tired of getting letters that say my data was part of a data breech.

    We must have European regulations and laws regarding our data and privacy. Business is incapable of acting ethically, fairly and honestly.