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 ...

ChoicePoint Inc. will pay $15 million to settle charges that it failed to protect consumers' personal information, the Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday. It is the largest civil penalty over ...

The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday hit data broker ChoicePoint Inc. with the largest civil penalty in the agency’s history for allowing sensitive consumer information to get into the hands of ...

Scammers penetrated ChoicePoint Inc.’s vast online database of personal records five years ago in an operation similar to a more recent case that has triggered a national furor over privacy, court ...

ATLANTA – ChoicePoint Inc., a 1997 spinoff of credit agency Equifax, is being acquired by the parent of LexisNexis in a $3.6 billion cash deal that offers a major premium for a company that weathered ...

The embattled data broker ChoicePoint Inc. said Friday it no longer will sell sensitive consumer information to small businesses, and the company's chief executive said he did not learn of a major ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ChoicePoint will discontinue the sale of sensitive consumer data, including social security and driver's license numbers, except where the data is used to support federal, state or local government ...

As ChoicePoint Inc. continues this week to notify some 145,000 consumers of possible identity theft after it sold consumer information to fraudulent businesses last year, the company said it’s ...

Deborah Pierce held a rare and precious document in her hands. It was the story of her life, as told by ChoicePoint Inc. She wasn't supposed to see it; an anonymous source had smuggled the report to ...