That's around ~430,000,000 USD for Equifax alone [edit: if] 143M people got their credit frozen at $3 per freeze. (Obviously back of napkin math, and not everybody pays the same or even freezes their credit)
Retiring is not protection against criminal charges.
Also, there would be oodles of money involved in the case of firing, resignation, or staying on anyway.
Not the big pile of money for leaving/getting fired, the accepting of consequences for legal actions taken while working for the corporation.
Not when gross negligence occurs.
EDIT: Gross negligence in the legal sense.
Because my comment is clearly scoped to "legal actions".
It is, however, protection against a for-cause firing.
edit: ceejayoz has pointed out that they are free for 30 days only (and we're in that time window already).
You still need to freeze with the other two agencies, and in a few weeks it'll cost money to lift your Equifax freeze if you want to open a new account.
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...
> How do I place a freeze on my credit reports? Contact each of the nationwide credit reporting companies.
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0275-place-fraud-alert
> Ask 1 of the 3 credit reporting companies to put a fraud alert on your credit report. They must tell the other 2 companies.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/12/pf/what-is-a-credit-freeze/i...
> In response to public outcry, Equifax announced that fees to freeze your credit will be waived for the next 30 days. But even that doesn't totally protect your information since your data isn't fully frozen until it is on ice at all three credit bureaus. The other bureaus have their own fees. It's also unclear whether Equifax would still charge you a fee to lift the freeze. The company did not immediately respond to request for comment.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/your-money/identity-theft...