Lets not forget Equifax

In a nutshell:

1. Equifax was hacked big time, everybody knows that
2. Came out in September 2017
3. Found out in March?
1.  Slashdot: Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed
4. Execs sold lots of stock
1.  And even bigger and largely unappreciated, Options!
5. So if you're a responsible person with good credit, you're a target ripe for the picking
1. Equifax will do a credit with themselves for free ( and their PIN isn't even a time stamp )
2. Not sure about the others
3. Is something other than a credit freeze better?
4.  The Equifax Breach: Here's How to Protect Yourself | WIRED
5. There's something on TWIT, they discussed it on Security Now  #62
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Update: Continuing this dumpster fire, according to Slashdot,  Equifax Has Been Sending Consumers To a Fake Phishing Site for Almost Two Weeks for theft protection.  They created "EquifaxSecurity2017.com", but were sending people to "securityequifax2017.com" in tweets between September 9 and 20 2017.  in Gizmodo:

Another Update: (9/22/2017)

The 3 executives that made $2mil were a story, but the options that were bought on August 21 for $160K were worth about $10M on Sept 7

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/20/house-finance-committee-seeks-information-on-equifax-options-activity.html