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 ...

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 ...

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — ChoicePoint Inc. was created to avoid just the sort of mess in which it now finds itself. The nation’s biggest private collector of personal information was spun off seven years ago ...

ChoicePoint, the massive data broker made infamous for selling 163,000 customer records to identity theft fraudsters, is on a comeback tour. On Sunday, the New York Times ran a 3,400 word piece ...

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 ...

ChoicePoint Inc., under fire for being duped into allowing criminals to access its massive database of personal information, said Monday that consumers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In August the police in Corona, Calif., got a surprising phone call. The caller said an auditor needed to examine the department's facilities and take pictures inside. To the security-conscious police ...

ChoicePoint has confirmed that scammers culled the personal information of tens of thousands of Americans in a recent attack on its consumer database, resulting in 750 individual cases of identity ...

ChoicePoint could have leaked information on far more than 145,000 U.S. citizens, the data collector's latest filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission suggests. The Atlanta-based company said ...

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 ...