[paultannenbaum]

For what it is worth to others thinking of doing the same thing, I too took Equifax to small claims court in Santa Barbara.

They sent a lawyer from their legal team to the initial hearing. I presented a lot of the similar arguments that were presented here, but the judge denied my claim based on not being able to prove negligence on the part of Equifax.

[prklmn]

Did you talk about them being a negligent steward of your data, and not patching a 2 month old bug? They admitted this https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/massi...

[g051051]

Negligence would be if they knew about the bug but ignored it, which per a later Bloomberg article isn't what happened. Instead, there was a process failure so that they thought the bug was patched, when it wasn't.