ChoicePoint Data Stolen By Imposters

Posted by timothy on Monday February 14, 2005 @02:06PM from the smarter-decisions-safer-world dept.

swight1701 writes "Criminals posing as legitimate businesses have accessed critical personal data stored by ChoicePoint Inc., a firm that maintains databases of background information on virtually every U.S. citizen. The incident involves a wide swath of consumer data, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, credit reports and other information. ChoicePoint notified between 30,000 and 35,000 consumers in California that their personal data may have been accessed by "unauthorized third parties." No obvious notice appears to be on their website."

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Choicepoint also helped Bush attack US democracy by plinius · 2005-02-14 15:02 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Greg Palast reported on it.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=217&r ow =2
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=327 &row =2

Also see here:

www.electionfraud2004.org

You still think the "exploit" was an accident?
Re:So who ELSE is affected!? by jim_v2000 · 2005-02-14 22:54 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Why are they refusing to disclose vital information?

Maybe they don't know?

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