<story><title>Equifax takes down web page after reports of new hack</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-equifax-breach/equifax-takes-down-web-page-after-reports-of-new-hack-idUSKBN1CH2F3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Posibyte</author><text>I feel like this has to do with Equifax basically not being punished in any major way over the last breach. Their stocks are still priced reasonably well, most of their board is still intact, and US citizens are still required to work with them for credit reasons.&lt;p&gt;And the worst part is, I have no idea how I as a person could say &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t want to do work with Equifax because I don&amp;#x27;t trust them.&amp;quot; And if anybody has suggestions on that, I&amp;#x27;m totally open, because if Equifax was a dripping faucet, they&amp;#x27;d be flooding the house by now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>&amp;gt; Their stocks are still priced reasonably well,&lt;p&gt;Exactly. And everyone is watching and learning a lesson from it - &amp;quot;If this goes unpunished, heck, we can get away with it too, screw all the security mumbo jumbo&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;In an investing and finance forum I saw people were gearing up to buy Equifax after the breach was announced. The idea was that price would dip then it would go back up. Maybe enough people did that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Equifax takes down web page after reports of new hack</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-equifax-breach/equifax-takes-down-web-page-after-reports-of-new-hack-idUSKBN1CH2F3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Posibyte</author><text>I feel like this has to do with Equifax basically not being punished in any major way over the last breach. Their stocks are still priced reasonably well, most of their board is still intact, and US citizens are still required to work with them for credit reasons.&lt;p&gt;And the worst part is, I have no idea how I as a person could say &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t want to do work with Equifax because I don&amp;#x27;t trust them.&amp;quot; And if anybody has suggestions on that, I&amp;#x27;m totally open, because if Equifax was a dripping faucet, they&amp;#x27;d be flooding the house by now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rgbrenner</author><text>freeze your credit report with Equifax, and then if any company requests it, they&amp;#x27;ll be denied (because you have to request it be unfrozen for them to receive it).&lt;p&gt;If any company uses Equifax, you&amp;#x27;ll then be denied credit or they&amp;#x27;ll ask you to unfreeze it.. either way, you can complain to them, and make it clear you won&amp;#x27;t work with Equifax.&lt;p&gt;Of course, in practice, this will mean you&amp;#x27;ll get denied credit from any company that has a contract with Equifax.</text></comment>