Survey: 9 Of 10 Believe Equifax Should Be Punished

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MoneyTips published an article explaining that Equifax has yet to be punished for the data breach that compromised the personal data of more than 147 million Americans. We wanted to know if the credit bureau should be punished... and if so, how?

"The enormity of the Equifax data breach cannot be overstated," says Professor Steve Weisman, who teaches White Collar Crime at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. "As many as 148 million people now have the threat of identity theft looming over them for the rest of their lives."

In an exclusive MoneyTips survey conducted in 2018, we asked:

Nearly 9 in 10 (89.8%) of the 1,132 respondents of the Google survey believe that