From their TOS:
AGREEMENT TO RESOLVE ALL DISPUTES BY BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION. PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE SECTION CAREFULLY BECAUSE IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS BY REQUIRING ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES (EXCEPT AS SET FORTH BELOW) AND A WAIVER OF THE ABILITY TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, CLASS ARBITRATION, OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. ARBITRATION PROVIDES A QUICK AND COST EFFECTIVE MECHANISM FOR RESOLVING DISPUTES, BUT YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT IT ALSO LIMITS YOUR RIGHTS TO DISCOVERY AND APPEAL.
Before people say this is just for general Equifax products, if your information is found, you are automatically subscribed to their TrustedID service. Wrong on my part; you're given a date to manually enroll. The fact that by signing up, that you sign away your right to sue is still important.
Also, can we talk about how sketchy this website is by itself?
Here's the WHOIS for equifaxsecurity2017.com:
Registrant Contact
Name: Domain Administrator
Organization: DNStination Inc.
Mailing Address: 3450 Sacramento Street, Suite 405, San Francisco CA 94118 US
Phone: +1.4155319335
Ext:
Fax: +1.4155319336
Fax Ext:
Email:admin@dnstinations.com
WHOIS for equifax.com:
Registrant Contact
Name: Domain Admin
Organization: Equifax Inc
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 740006, Atlanta GA 30374-0006 US
Phone: +1.4048858000
Ext:
Fax: +0.0000000000
Fax Ext:
Email:hostmaster@equifax.com
They're literally doing the exact thing a financial website shouldn't do. Rather than devoting a subdomain of the Equifax website like where they made the announcement, investor.equifax.com, they registered a domain that literally anyone could register. Yes, they did announce it in a press release, and many sources have reported on it, such as WIRED, Ars Technica, Snopes, and more. Even still, this was just a giant fuck up on their part, especially since it was revealed that they delayed the release of the fact that the breach happened while multiple shareholders divested from the company to avoid the shitstorm that they knew would hit their stock.
Submitted September 07, 2017 at 10:26PM by KlugReeOlympic http://ift.tt/2xT9WS7
