No, sadly this isn’t a story from the Onion.
The no-bid contract was issued last week, as the company continued facing fallout from its massive security breach.
By STEVEN OVERLY and NANCY SCOLA
The IRS will pay Equifax $7.25 million to verify taxpayer identities and help prevent fraud under a no-bid contract issued last week, even as lawmakers lash the embattled company about a massive security breach that exposed personal information of as many as 145.5 million Americans.
A contract award for Equifax's data services was posted to the Federal Business Opportunities database Sept. 30 — the final day of the fiscal year. The credit agency will "verify taxpayer identity" and "assist in ongoing identity verification and validations" at the IRS, according to the award.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle blasted the IRS decision.
This comes on the heels of the news of largest data beach ever at Yahoo where all 3 billion accounts were hacked back in 2013. And we’re just learning about it now?
These data mining corporations need to be strictly regulated, not rewarded for failure.
This is my third post with an Onionesque title in the past 28 hours.
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