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ChoicePoint Breach Exposed 13,750 Consumer Records

Posted on October 20th, 2009 admin No comments

ChoicePoint Inc., one of the nation’s consumer data brokers, agreed to pay $275,000 to federal regulators as a result of a data breach last year that exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information on 13,750 people. In 2006, ChoicePoint – now a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier Inc – paid $15 million to settle charges that it violated…

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ChoicePoint Breach Exposed 13,750 Consumer Records

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