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Organization reports incident
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E Renae Conley
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John B. McCoy
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2002-05
Terrence Murray
Kenneth Langone
Charles I Story
M Anne Szostak
Douglas C Curling
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ChoicePoint, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier (previous NYSE ticker symbol NYSE: CPS), is a data aggregation company based in Alpharetta, near Atlanta, Georgia, United States, that acts as a private intelligence service to government and industry. It was purchased in February 2008 by Reed Elsevier in a cash deal for $3.6 billion USD.
ChoicePoint combines personal data sourced from multiple public and private databases for sale to the government and the private sector. The firm maintains more than 17 billion records of individuals and businesses, which it sells to an estimated 100,000 clients, including 7,000 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies (30 March 2005 estimates).
However, this data has not been secured sufficiently to prevent theft of data on at least one...
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2009-10-21T21:11:19Z
Hundreds of thousands of consumers at risk of ID theft from stolen credit card accounts, and consumer information
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