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    Michael Hiltzik: Here are all the ways the Equifax data breach is worse than you can imagine

    by By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Sep 08, 2017 4 minutes

    Another day, another massive data breach. Except this one involves Equifax, one of the credit-monitoring companies you might expect to be ultrasensitive to the importance of safeguarding your personal information from hackers.

    Instead, the company revealed on Thursday, the personal data of 143 million U.S. consumers in its care - nearly half the country - was potentially compromised. The data now at large includes names, Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses and driver's license numbers, all of which can be used fraudulently to validate the identity of someone trying to open a bank or credit account in another person's name.

    In some cases, Equifax says, the security questions and answers used on some websites to verify users' identity may also have been exposed. Having

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