Equifax is one of the 'big three' credit agencies, sitting alongside Experian and TransUnion.

In September 2017, the company became aware of a major security breach, which it said could affect around 145 million of its US consumers plus many more around the world. The data stolen included names, social security numbers, birth dates and addresses - information typically used by banks and other financial institutions to confirm identities. Many of the consumers who were affected by the breach could therefore become victims of identity theft in the future, making this one of the most serious breaches of personal data in recent years.

Please apply Kantian theory to this case along with the 3 principles from the framework for ethical reasoning