2009 — ChoicePoint: ChoicePoint has been fined $275,000 by the U, 14K records
Data compromised
Personal information
Technical writeup
ChoicePoint has been fined $275,000
by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for a data breach that exposed
personal information of 13,750 people last year. In April 2008, ChoicePoint
turned off a key electronic security tool that it used to monitor
access to one of its databases and failed to notice the problem for
four months, according to an FTC statement. During that period, unauthorized
searches were conducted for 30
Root cause
Unintended disclosure