Hi
I hope you don't mind, but there's one obvious thing which comes to mind (although I have not read the links sorry - this was reported on speedtester a few days ago), and that's passwords
Equifax would have a number of registered users (they ran some television adverts), and I still think a lot of users use same passwords for other areas, internet banking, eBay PayPal etc, which there account details will show they have
I would not be surprised if a lot of users had money taken
Also, thinking about talktalk, when they were hit, they helped users by letting them use the similar company to equifax (sorry the name I cannot remember sorry), so who is equifax to allow to look after users who details were taken
These are just some thoughts I had on the matter sorry
Many thanks
John