On: The Equifax breach may be the worst leak of person...

[maxerickson]

I was just making fun of the info highlighted in the press release. If I have it right, the Target breach affected 41 million people. Helping them put it in the rear view mirror for ~$10 million is quite a service.

Maybe it was a different Target data breach?

[goialoq → maxerickson]

That's how class actions work. The lawyers extract a fee from the perpetrator as protection against larger settlements/judgments. Perp limits their downside, law firm gets paid, consumers are left holding the bag.

[busterarm → maxerickson]

AFAIK, one of our attorneys was involved in 2 with Target, one for $10mil and one for $13mil. We're also involved with Home Depot and other data breach cases. They scope of those breaches is much smaller than this one, by the way.

[busterarm → maxerickson]

I'm just saying that some firms try. There's really nobody making them accountable otherwise.

This isn't Equifax's first data breach and the others are pretty recent too.