ChoicePoint, the massive data broker made infamous for selling 163,000 customer records to identity theft fraudsters, is on a comeback tour. On Sunday, the New York Times ran a 3,400 word piece ...

In February 2005 the data company ChoicePoint disclosed that it sold records on thousands of Americans to identity thieves. In particular, it sold significant amounts of personal information on ...

Data broker ChoicePoint, the victim of a 2004 data breach affecting more than 160,000 U.S. residents, has agreed to strengthen its data security efforts and pay a fine for a second breach in 2008, the ...

As data broker ChoicePoint wrestles with the fallout from the sale of personal data to identity thieves and an investigation into two executives' sale of company stock, it faces questions on another ...

In August, the police in Corona, Calif., got a surprising phone call. The caller said an auditor needed to examine the department’s facilities and take pictures inside. To the security-conscious ...

Reed Elsevier announced the acquisition of U.S. risk-management business ChoicePoint for $4.1 billion including debt alongside its results, as well as a renewed cost-savings drive and the planned sale ...

More than two years after data breach, ChoicePoint describes lessons learned, upgrades in data security and privacy. BOSTON — Few companies know as well as ChoicePoint the consequences of failing to ...

In the wake of the settlement the Federal Trade Commission announced last week with the data broker ChoicePoint, most of the attention has been on the biggest, baddest number of them all: $15 million.

The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that data warehouser ChoicePoint Inc. will pay $15 million to settle charges that its security and record-handling procedures violated consumers' privacy ...

Data broker ChoicePoint will pay $15 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its lax procedures violated consumer protection laws, the agency said Thursday. Under the settlement, the ...

Embattled personal data vendor ChoicePoint said on Friday that it will stop selling sensitive consumer data to many of its customers, except when that data helps complete a consumer transaction or ...