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2009 — ChoicePoint: ChoicePoint has been fined $275,000 by the U, 14K records

2009 14.0K records affected Share on X

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

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