Choicepoint.com - Press Release on 145,000 affected by Data Theft
Posted
Wed, Feb 23 2005 6:50
by
Harry Waldron
ChoicePoint maintains and sells background files on virtually every adult American. They extract this information from millions of public and private records. Choicepoint.com issued a detailed press release at their website regarding the identity theft impacting 144,778 citizens across the United States.
The press release contains a table showing the number of citizens impacted in each state. In addition to notifying everyone, they have setup a special toll-free support number. They will be purchasing tri-bureau credit reports and a one year subsciption to the monitoring service. Finally, they are asking the industry for more assistance on detecting and prosecuting Identity Theft.
http://choicepoint.com/news/statement_0205_1.html
What we know about the crime
What we are doing to inform and protect Consumers
What we are doing to minimize the likelihood of future occurrences