| Personal Data Leaked
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| BlueStreak |
Did anyone read this? Nice...FAKE companies posed as legit companies and stole data. Makes you wonder how well CP checks into companies they work with.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6969799/
I like how they worded this. More than 30,000 in the article title, yet 30,000 California residents mentioned later. Because Calif. requires data security breaches to be made public, Calif numbers were listed. So about residents in other states? What was the total number of accounts really leaked?
Thanks, ChoicePoint. |
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| nightguy |
| This reminds me of the story from a couple of months ago that some traveling Wells Fargo employees left their laptops in the car while they went into the gas station. Of course they got ripped off. On them, tons of customer info including SS#'s. |
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| TheWorm |
My guess is that since CA is about 10% of the US population, 10x as many people are affected (aka 300,000+).
Love how ChoicePoint tries to absolve itself of any responsibily by characterizing the incident as a "theft" by "hackers". Their database was not hacked and the data wasn't stolen -- ChoicePoint gave it to them! Sure, the criminals obtained it fraudulently, but it was ChoicePoint's inability to adequately screen people/companies requesting access to records that resulted in the illegal dissemination of private information; not some "hacker" breaking into a computer system and "stealing" data.
I haven't received a letter (and hope I don't) but to say "uh, we gave out this information to people we shouldn't have; better keep an eye on your $hit" is shameful. Even WellsFargo provided free credit monitoring services to potential victims of their two incidents last year (one was theft of a laptop from a subcontractor's office, and the other was the theft of laptops from the car as nightguy mentioned).
Of course, WellsFargo has to deal with rabid customers while ChoicePoint really does not, does it? |
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| TheWorm |
quote:
Originally posted by zafer
http://choicepoint.com/news/statement_0205_1.html
I guess their PR people and attorneys started giving them advice :) That statement's very different than their press person's comments in the original news articles. |
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| BlueStreak |
quote:
Originally posted by BlueStreak
Did anyone read this? Nice...FAKE companies posed as legit companies and stole data. Makes you wonder how well CP checks into companies they work with.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6969799/
I like how they worded this. More than 30,000 in the article title, yet 30,000 California residents mentioned later. Because Calif. requires data security breaches to be made public, Calif numbers were listed. So about residents in other states? What was the total number of accounts really leaked?
Thanks, ChoicePoint.
I hit the nail on the head this time. We work with these people daily and what a treat they are. So the original 30,000 is now 145,000. I REALLY like the fact CP wanted to HIDE the real numbers from us. Only when forced to tell all did they come clean.
I have ZERO confidence in these guys for (1) their lack of integrity and (2) sh!tty internal controls for ensuring data security. I hope some lawyers teach CP an EXPENSIVE lesson to get it right.
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