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How “equifax” trended on Hacker News

“Equifax” was mentioned 5,777 times on Hacker News between 2008 and 2026, peaking in Aug 2017 with 1,034 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “equifax” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “equifax”

1. 1.Tell HN: Salary data is for sale 1,690 points · 762 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack 1,345 points · 648 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack 1,126 points · 464 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
4. 4.A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data 934 points · 276 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Equifax Lobbied to Kill Rule Protecting Victims of Data Breaches 893 points · 167 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf] 757 points · 219 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
7. 7.U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice 739 points · 375 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Was Revealed 650 points · 169 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125 649 points · 272 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millions submitted claims 600 points · 441 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs 600 points · 386 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax 565 points · 207 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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