Topic: ChoicePoint Inc.

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Who Else Is Reporting Your Credit? The “Other” Three Bureaus

photo: gerlos. . We all know Equifax (EFX), TransUnion and Experian (EXP). I've written about them about a thousand times over the past decade. We...
About two years ago, I uncovered this scoop about a company called Choicepoint and have been following it ever since. ChoicePoint is a company that actually runs on the business of collecting and selling consumer data - addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, and ...
Victims of consumer data integrator ChoicePoint's most recent security breach soon will be getting their settlement checks from the Federal Trade Commission, but they may hardly be pleased.. eSecurity Planet reports that the FTC has begun cutting checks in the amount ...

How Is Your CLUE Report?

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Ever wonder how credit reporting companies like Equifax dig up dirt on overextended consumers? Equifax is now facing federal class action lawsuits in New Jersey and Pennsylvania over claims files were mistakenly tagged with negative info. After the elder Summerfield contacted Equifax ...
At least 340 million personal records held by corporations, government agencies, and other entities have been compromised by security breaches since January 2005, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a non-profit consumer organization that keeps a running tally that isn't even ...
The Federal Trade Commission contends that ChoicePoint did not properly implement security improvements after its milestone 2005 data breach.The Federal Trade Commission has punished ChoicePoint for another data breach after the agency concluded the data broker failed to properly implement security ...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has fined ChoicePoint $275,000 for a data breach that exposed personal information of 13,750 people last year, reports CNET News. After paying the largest fine imposed by the FTC -- $15 million -- earlier this year ...