It began in 1997 as a company that sold credit data to the insurance industry. But over the next seven years, as it acquired dozens of other companies, Alpharetta, Ga.-based ChoicePoint Inc. became an ...

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 ...

Federal regulators may have intensified their probe of ChoicePoint Inc., the data broker under fire for disclosing sensitive information about at least 150,000 people to scam artists. On Monday, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...