Organization Overview: ChoicePoint

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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...

Freebase Details on ChoicePoint

RevenueDate
$1,055,000,000.00 US$ 2006-12-31
Operating IncomeDate
$268,800,000.00 US$ 2006-12-31
Market CapitalizationDate
$2,500,000,000.00 US$ 2007-12-31
Board MembersTitleFromTo
John Hamre
E Renae Conley
John B. McCoy 2003
Ray M Robinson
Terrence Murray 2002-05
Kenneth Langone
Charles I Story
M Anne Szostak
Douglas C Curling
Derek V Smith
Richard Armitage
Bonnie G. Hill 2001

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ASSOCIATED INCIDENTS

ID: 67: Hundreds of thousands of consumers at risk of ID theft from stolen credit card accounts, and consumer information

  • Date: 2005-03-11
  • Records Lost: 163,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: admin
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: ChoicePoint

ID: 1208: Compromised username and password opens access to names, SSN's, DoB's, and driver's licenses.

  • Date: 2008-09-19
  • Records Lost: 12,119
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: d2d
  • Location: Coral Springs FL, US
  • Organizations: ChoicePoint, City of Coral Springs, FL

ID: 2393: Disabled security systems delay discovery of breach involving Social Security numbers and other sensitive information of over 13,000

  • Date: 2009-10-20
  • Records Lost: 13,750
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: d2d
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: ChoicePoint, Reed Elsevier

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Name: ChoicePoint

Stock symbol: CPS

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