The Equifax breach may be the worst leak of personal info ever
There still doesn't seem to exist the political will do to anything real about this, or to hold accountable in any real way the companies that leak. These stories happen pretty much every week now, often more than one a week. I think companies will continue not caring, simply do a blog post after they get owned about how sorry they are and then proceed with business as usual, unless that changes.<p>I don't think the issue is SSN, though it is absurd how we treat SSN as both an identifier and a secret at the same time. The problem is we don't really care when secret info gets leaked- even when it's actual secrets and not something sort-of-secret like SSNs.