Slap on the wrist, guaranteed:

- potentially every one of the 143M people are going to have some sort of trouble

- WORST CASE equifax shuts down, but that doesn't matter. too late.

- if everyone was to win a lawsuit for everything equifax is worth, they'd get maybe $100 minus lawyer fees.

And worse, now we have a financial system dependent on 2 companies. Making a 3rd isn't an easy matter.

::shrug::

EquiFax declares bankruptcy, re-orgs and rebrands.

If the insider dealing allegations are founded, jail time.

143 million people, or essentially every US citizen over 18 (give or take a few million.) It most likely includes Senators, Congressman, Donald Trump etc etc. So, yeah, a lot of people will be inconvenienced and pissed off, ad for a very good reason.

Senators, congressmen and Donald Trump himself all had their data previously leaked at least once before. Nothing changed as a result.

I should hope something happens. This is a monumental fuckup.