Equifax Slaughtered on Twitter For Wishing Customers ‘Happy Friday’ After Data Breach

Meet Stevie. Stevie seems a pleasant sort — beginning the workday by jovially wishing everyone on Twitter a “Happy Friday.”

But Stevie happens to work for Equifax. And so, for our pal Stevie, it almost certainly will not be a happy Friday.

In case you missed it on Thursday, Equifax was hit with a massive cyberattack which — per The New York Times — potentially compromised the social security and driver license numbers for as many as 143 million people nationwide.

Stevie was in the unfortunate position of running the company’s troubleshooting Twitter account, @askequifax. Stevie began the workday with this now-deleted message:

Stevie’s happy Friday wishes did not go over well at all with the Twitterverse. Here are a few of the reactions:

Oh Stevie, honey… https://t.co/VjL04jZSSI

— Lindsey Ellefson (@ellefs0n) September 8, 2017

prayers up for stevie pic.twitter.com/QkB3DTjYjc

— jeff meltz ✨✨✨ (@thecultureofme) September 8, 2017

Do we get to fire your top executives ourselves as consumers or will there be a livestream to watch this happen?

— Soren (@grandall2107) September 8, 2017

This will not end well…

So why does your victim list require us to put in our SSN? Why would we trust you with that ever again?

— Mitchell Indelicato (@mitchindel) September 8, 2017

stevie am i fucked

— Deer Chair (@deer_chair) September 8, 2017

Stevie, I’m thinking you are about to have a really bad Friday.

— Corey Pudhorodsky (@CoreyPud) September 8, 2017

Prayers for Stevie

— Carten Cordell (@wccordell) September 8, 2017

Glad you are chipper and ready to help but probably should have helped to prevent the data breach from happening. #losttrust

— Kim Binaso-Stwalley (@KStwalley) September 8, 2017

Hi Stevie! I’m sorry you work for incompetent, corner-cutting children in suits.

— Tony Webster (@webster) September 8, 2017

How can I request a 100 point bump in my credit score for the inconvenience?

— John Hinton III (@johnhinton3) September 8, 2017

should i buy $EFX now or keep waiting? it’s down 15%

— abdul ? (@Advil) September 8, 2017

i really don’t think stevie was ready

— amy brown (@arb) September 8, 2017

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