Yep. Those assholes know it. And sold their shares!

Credit cards can be replaced. Try replacing your life.

Yup.

Now people gotta worry about warrants and bullshit, from people claiming to be them..

You can apply for a new SSN....

Imagine the vortex of suck that would cause. But still maybe better than the alternative.

Best avatar ever, Pablo.

What makes it even better is the expiration date.

That is some well aged head cheese.

Yeah. In Massachusetts, my driver's license number was my SSN. That's the way it was way back then.

As far as their "free" program....

Two ways of think about it. Using Equifax for anything could be akin to hugging the person who just stole your big screen TV. OR......they could NOW be the safest site to use. Sort of like when Jack In the Box got caught with shit in their burgers and not high using enough temperature to cook the E.coli out of them. After they got caught, it was probably the safest burger around.

When I was in the Navy, they had you stencil your first, middle initial, last name, and SSN on your sea bag.
Not like anyone is going to see that at the airport baggage claim.

Jack in the Box "Our burgers may be shitty, but they're thoroughly cooked"

Equifax "Fool me once, shame on you..."

I had a friend who worked on that case while a grad student at UW. Said the meat was so infected you would have had to autoclave for 20 minutes to make it safe to eat.

But ya, risk of contaminated food it pretty low now.
Lawsuits and recalls would put many companies out of business.
That's why they employ internal inspectors.

I think that was the case for my first license in Kentucky too.

I know my student ID at UK used it.

When your chief security officer is a music major, this is something that's just waiting to happen...