ChoicePoint, Inc., based in Alpharetta, Georgia, maintains databases that include nearly every adult in America, including their personal data, credit reports and some criminal records.
The company sells your data to local law enforcement agencies, lawyers, the intelligence community and homeland security officials, which may not fill you with confidence when you learn that earlier this week, ChoicePoint officials said the records of more than 35,000 people in California may have been inadvertently handed over to a group of fraudsters.
Company officials now say they are sending out letters to more than 110,000 addresses throughout the country that may be connected to the reports delivered to the criminals.
ChoicePoint delivered thousands of reports, over the Internet, containing names, addresses, Social Security numbers and other financial information to individuals in the Los Angeles area posing as officials of legitimate recipients of the data.
As a result, more than 700 victims have had their mailing addresses changed— identity thieves sometimes change the addresses of victims in order to intercept a victim's mail.
It may also be too soon to determine the actual extent of the damage.
According to the ChoicePoint's letter, they "deeply regret any inconvenience".
So that's alright then???.
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