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FTC hasn't paid victims of breach at ChoicePoint
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:13:49 -0400 (EDT)
Courtesy InfoSec News and WK: http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2006/09/21/ftc_hasnt_paid_victims_of_breach_at_choicepoint/ By Associated Press September 21, 2006 ATLANTA -- Nearly eight months after regulators trumpeted a settlement with ChoicePoint Inc. over a data breach, the government has not paid any money to victims from a $5 million fund that was to be set up as part of the agreement. The Federal Trade Commission also has not yet implemented procedures for how the 800 fraud victims it has identified so far can be compensated from the fund, nor has it hired anyone to administer it , said FTC spokeswoman Claudia Bourne Farrell. ``That's under review," Farrell said Tuesday. Responding to an open records request by the Associated Press, Farrell said the commission is trying to develop a plan to distribute the money efficiently. Jessica Rich, assistant director of the FTC's division of privacy and identity theft, said in a statement yesterday that ``law enforcement is still identifying victims, and we want to make sure we have the right people." [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 361 incidents over 6 years.
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