[outages] Apparently Equifax is down for consumers and businesses.

[Joshua Samuels]

It was me... I applied for a few credit cards today.

I didn't think my credit was bad enough to bring the entire system down
🥴...

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 3:28 PM Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal) via Outages <
outages at outages.org> wrote:

> I was ordering fiber optic internet from Frontier Communications—my doctor
> said I should consume more fiber—but their system said my credit check
> failed and was demanding an equipment deposit.  I pushed back.  They ran it
> three times.
>
>
>
> Then they got word in a group chat that Equifax’s consumer and business
> portals are down, so they can’t process any credit checks.
>
>
>
> Woe be unto you if you work in finance or support a business that depends
> on this service.  I hope they didn’t have another breach.  Maybe they will
> need a tiny excavator to dig them out of this mess like that freighter
> stuck in the Suez canal
> <https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/mcw8og/new_pictures_from_the_suez_canal_authority_on_the/>
> for the last two days...
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brad
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