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ChoicePoint to Pay $275,000 Fine for Latest Data Breach

Posted by Kara Reeder Oct 21, 2009 10:40:09 AM

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has fined ChoicePoint $275,000 for a data breach that exposed personal information of 13,750 people last year, reports CNET News. The FTC says ChoicePoint turned off a key electronic security tool that monitors access to one of its databases and didn't notice the problem for four months.

ChoicePoint has had a rough go of it lately. After paying the largest fine imposed by the FTC -- $15 million -- earlier this year, ChoicePoint was taken to task by 44 states for a 2005 security breach that gave criminals access to hundreds of thousands of customers' information. It reached a settlement in which it will pay each affected state $500,000.

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