Data broker ChoicePoint Inc. has agreed to pay $10 million to settle the last remaining class-action lawsuit filed against the company in connection with a data breach disclosed in early 2005 in which ...

A California woman sues for fraud after criminals gain access to tens of thousands of personal records held by the company. A California woman has sued ChoicePoint for fraud and negligence after ...

Credit and personal information vendor ChoicePoint Inc. took a $6 million charge in its second quarter, which ended June 30, citing costs associated with the theft of personal information on 145,000 ...

ChoicePoint, which became a poster child for data breaches when it lost data on 163,000 consumers in 2005, has agreed to pay a penalty for a subsequent breach that compromised more than 13,000 ...

ChoicePoint Inc., the data broker that set off a national debate after disclosing a data breach early in 2005, will pay US$15 million in fines and other penalties for lax security standards, the U.S.

The real culprit is actually ChoicePoint itself and the three bureaus. By creating what is supposedly a superior solution than the old fashioned way of granting credit (knowing your customer, personal ...

ChoicePoint’s data breach early last year was the first major such incident we actually heard about. That we heard about it was thanks to a then little-known 2003 California law requiring companies ...

Worrisome news is arriving in mailboxes around Minnesota and North Dakota as roughly 2,500 consumers are learning they're possible victims in the ChoicePoint identity theft scam. In North Dakota, the ...

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), for instance, sent a letter Thursday to the head of Westlaw, a data-mining firm based in Minnesota, asking that the company suspend its Web-based "People-Find" feature. ...

The revelation last week that data collector ChoicePoint has mistakenly given private information on up to 145,000 U.S. residents to identity thieves has led to renewed calls in Washington, D.C., for ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun mailing claim forms to more than 1,400 identity-theft victims who spent money to clear up identity-theft problems due to a security breach at data ...