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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Data broker ChoicePoint will pay $15 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its lax procedures violated consumer protection laws, the agency said Thursday. Under the settlement, the ...