You can send a letter to the Courts and let them know why you do or don't think this is a sufficient and decent settlement.
Share it, let's get people writing in, because this lets Equifax keep really everything and in the end little real effect from their failure to take care of the information they were entrusted with.
That was exactly my thought. It's like DDT on Mosquitoes. The ones that survived were resistant, so when they bred, all their offspring were resistant.
Could end up being the same issue here, so this could easily become a FAR FAR worse issue in the next generation or two of these worms.
If you look at the amount they increased wages by, 9.7 million and by 10667 employees and just take an average... that's only 908 bucks a person.
Don't get me wrong, 908 bucks a year is 908 bucks.
But take into considering hours, that's only a pay increase of just under 44 cents an hour.
So at the end of the day, they weren't severely underpaying employees.
Good to see a company take this step. I had this happen to me at one company I worked for... it actually resulted in a pay increase of over 4 bucks an hour, now THAT was nice!
Yepper! Chain of Custody MUST be recorded and preserved. Document Document DOCUMENT! EVERYTHING. From the moment it was found to who/where it went next, to every step you took with it.
This guy clearly was following that and did his due diligence of step 1 being, make a backup of the device. Then you have a record of everything as near time of discovery as possible, so if you're investigation hoses everything up, you can restore and start over.
The author is also correct in that once he's done his investigation, he passes it all on to the next level to do their job. So in his case, he's done. There is NOTHING else he should be doing. If he does it really could hose up any/all legal action.
Kinda like getting to court in a Sexual Assault case and finding on the arresting officer forgot to read the guy his Miranda Rights.... You can have 100% proof this is the guilty party, but he goes free because someone in the chain of custody hosed up their part.
Place I work got hit HARD by this. Year and half before I started at this company they setup 4 SSD's in a RAID 5 config.
One day while working on things I noticed a message on our server indicating a PDR1001 Error (Predictive Failure). So we ordered a new one. The new SSD arrived. We popped in the new one and the RAID started to rebuild.... Lo and behold during that operation Drive 1 threw the same error and the whole thing came crashing down...
We ended up losing the whole array. I had NO idea we had SSD's in the system. I had no idea that no one was monitoring their life.... The moment I saw we had this issue I saw the writing on the wall. 4 SSD's in a raid 5 all installed at the same time... means all SSDs end up with the same approximate critical end of life.
All I could do was shake my head at the whole thing... Pretty sure those in the charge who setup the array still don't understand why this situation was 100% avoidable...
I grew up on Wing Commander! I had WC1 and got all the add-ons. I guess I'm one of the few who LOVED the branching missions and even played through the game so many times and purposefully lost at certain times to make sure I'd experienced every mission. Heck I even created a branch diagram for all the missions. I was only 15 at the time!
I then played through the game with such "anal" tenacity. I had to have EVERY kill for the killboard that was possible. If my wing man ever got any.... I'd dump out and try again!
Then WC2 came out... holy moley! Yes I had to have it all, and as the article pointed out... I also promptly saved my pennies until I could afford my first sound blaster card and picked up the Voice pack too!
Played and loved and enjoyed EVERY WC game in the series. The sense of wonder that I got... I wonder if kids have anything even close to those experiences today.
You can send a letter to the Courts and let them know why you do or don't think this is a sufficient and decent settlement.
Share it, let's get people writing in, because this lets Equifax keep really everything and in the end little real effect from their failure to take care of the information they were entrusted with.