And as is the case for every class action suit ever, some lawyers make a lot of money and everybody whose information was compromised by Equifax gets a check for 24 cents.
Honestly I don't mind too much. At this point I just want significant punishment for those who allow massive data leaks so there's a reasonable deterrent for other companies. Something needs to happen to make these executives take data security issues seriously.
"Worth more" in the sense that they probably charge more for it, but I doubt it would cost Equifax as much to provide that service as it would if they actually were forced to cough up real money.
They've already built out the infrastructure necessary for the monitoring product. The marginal cost of every additional person they add to it is probably quite low.
