On: Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

[xani_]

"Equifax investigated and fired at least 24 remote workers for secretly holding second jobs."

"secretly" ? Why you'd need to tell your employer that in the first place ?

[nijave → xani_]

There employment contract probably had outside activities restrictions that mandated other employment be approved by the company (these are, u fortunately, pretty common at big U.S. companies)