From the word go, this story smacks of plausible deniability. Hiring a music major to handle security assured that a hacker team would be able to penetrate the system. Selling the stock showed the intent to profit from the breach, despite ethical considerations, and waiting for weeks allowed the data to be utilized before it was known to be compromised.

I suspect this breach was either orchestrated by Equifax execs themselves, or 'state actors' with their knowledge.

Great research on this post!