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Somebody will buy the data. Equifax won't just disappear one day.


Actually it seems possible. The demand for their service won't disappear, but with their unpopularity and poor security practices someone who can might just decide to burn them to the ground. Their only assets are data. I'm sure they have offline backups, but a patient enough attack would bork the backups too. They'd probably try to continue doing business, because YOLO, but eventually enough erstwhile 850s would get their Audi leases rejected that the lawsuits would really pile up. About that time some pissed-off employees would start talking to reporters, and that would end the whole thing.




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