Private Investigation News: Victims of ChoicePoint Data Breach to Receive Redress Checks

"An administrator working for the Federal Trade Commission is mailing checks to 14,023 consumers who were victims of ChoicePoint’s alleged failure to implement a comprehensive information security program to protect consumers’ personal information, as required by a previous court order. As a result, in the spring of 2008, an unauthorized person accessed its database and conducted unauthorized searches."

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Identity Theft Tops FTC 2009 List of Consumer Complaints

"More than 278,000 complaints of identity theft were filed with the Federal Trade Commission in 2009, accounting for 21 percent of all the complaints to the FTC that year.

The FTC received 119,500 complaints about debt collection last year, the second-largest category, according to a new FTC report.
Here are the most frequent complaints the FTC received in 2009.

      Identity Theft                                              278,078      21%
     Third Party and Creditor Debt Collection     119,549     9%
     Internet Services                                          83,067     6%
     Shop-at-Home and Catalog Sales                74,581      6%
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Location Oakland, Ca - Private Investigator