ChoicePoint Incorporated

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Avi Rubin is known for annoying large companies and important people. Two years ago, the Johns Hopkins University professor first alerted the country to troubling vulnerabilities in electronic voting, much to the consternation of election officials and...

NEW YORK - The apparent theft of data from the popular clothing retailer Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. is forcing banks and credit card issuers to notify thousands of consumers that their credit card information might have been exposed. HSBC North America, a...

After someone used Robert Nighan's credit card to charge $2,000 worth of golf clubs in California, the insurance executive got an idea. Nighan — who doesn't golf and lives in Hartford, Conn. — figured out a way to legally make crime pay: Sell...

When CitiFinancial, the Baltimore-based consumer-finance division of Citigroup Inc., put a box of computer tapes that documented the financial habits of its customers on a UPS truck in Weehawken, N.J., last month, the shipment represented one routine step...

In the largest reported breach of personal data, hackers infiltrated the computers at a credit card processing center and stole as many as 40 million card numbers, MasterCard International disclosed yesterday. MasterCard said card numbers and...

After someone used Robert Nighan's credit card to charge $2,000 worth of golf clubs in California, the insurance executive got an idea. Nighan - who doesn't play golf and lives in Hartford, Conn. - figured out a way to make crime pay legally: Sell an...

As companies roll out a growing variety of tools to combat identity theft, some Americans are taking a more radical step: changing their Social Security number. Traditionally, trading in an old number for a new one is something attempted in only the most...

Data collection company ChoicePoint Inc. said yesterday that it will notify 2,750 Marylanders who may have been victimized in what privacy experts said could become one of the largest identity theft cases ever. ChoicePoint said it is in the process of...

Maryland legislators are expected to introduce legislation to protect personal information from identity fraud in response to the security breach at ChoicePoint Inc. in which thieves acquired data on thousands of consumers. The legislation could be...

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 records show. Two Nigerian-born fraud artists were...