Equifax finally publishes a tally of what got breached when it left 146.6 million credit files unsecured

[Sludge]

@doctorow

• 145.5 million had Social Security numbers exposed.

• 99 million had address information exposed.

• 27.3 million had gender information exposed.

• 20.3 million had phone numbers exposed.

• 17.6 million had driver’s license numbers exposed.

• 1.8 million had email addresses exposed.

• 209,000 had credit card numbers exposed.

• 97,500 had Tax Identification numbers exposed.

• 27,000 had the state of their driver’s license exposed.

As well as:

• 38,000 driver’s licenses

• 12,000 Social Security and Taxpayer ID cards

• 3,200 passports and passport cards

• 3,000 other documents, including military and state IDs and resident alien cards.

…And a partridge in a pear tree!

[Chris_Nelson]

Yeah, I totally think that those numbers are “actual” and not downplayed in any shape or form.
They would never lie would they?
(Damn sarcasm button is stuck on my phone)

[L0ki]

@Avery_Thorn

It is obvious by them selling the serices they can do more to protect identities.

@anotherone

Its a protection racket. Plain and simple.

Very much so, including the normal state of affairs in most protection rackets that you are in fact simply being ripped off because you will not get ‘protection’.

Credit monitoring services don’t protect you at all. They at best give you quicker notice that a fraud has been committed.