[vintageseltzer]

It's purposefully alarmist. "[Equifax] casually misplace[d] 2.5 million lives" sounds much more dramatic than "Equifax revised their estimate of the number of affected customers by +1.7%."

[kevinh]

Or maybe the latter is purposefully anodyne? 2.5 million people is rightfully alarming. 1.7% minimizes the sheer amount of people affected that weren't revealed earlier.

[paulddraper]

I want to be a fly on that wall.

"Ah, s--- we got hacked."

"How many users?"

"145,534,902"

"Ouch, that's a lot. Let's say it was 143,000,000."

"He he he, nice."

---

I've misplaced more bytes in a megabyte.

[khedoros1]

You've misplaced 2.5 million bytes in a megabyte?

[paulddraper]

I've misplaced > 1.7%.

E.g. I say one million but it turns out to be 1.05 million.