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Re: Senator questions FBI on ChoicePoint contract
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:30:25 -0400 (EDT)
: http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,110248,00.html : : Senator questions FBI on ChoicePoint contract : Leahy wants to know why DOJ's still doing business with breached firm : : News Story by Grant Gross : : APRIL 05, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - A top Democrat in the U.S. Senate : questioned Wednesday why the U.S. Department of Justice continues to do : business with data broker ChoicePoint Inc. a year after the company : announced a data breach potentially affecting 145,000 U.S. residents. : : Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) blasted the DOJ and the FBI division for a : recent five-year, $12 million contract for ChoicePoint to provide : investigative analysis software to the FBI. In February 2005, : ChoicePoint announced a data breach after criminals set up fake : businesses that purchased private information from the data broker. : : "What in heaven's name are we doing allowing someone as careless as : ChoicePoint to be in control of our data?" Leahy said at a subcommittee : hearing on the DOJ's 2007 budget. "I consider them the poster child for : lax security protection." Which brings up the point, when do you trust these companies again? Does a significant dataloss incident destroy all trust? Is it a permanant black eye that they are likely never to recover from? Seems like such an incident would take a lot to recover from. So, for the list subscribers, what would it take for you to resume business with a company that lost your data? _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
Current thread:
- Senator questions FBI on ChoicePoint contract lyger (Apr 07)
- Re: Senator questions FBI on ChoicePoint contract security curmudgeon (Apr 07)
- Re: Senator questions FBI on ChoicePoint contract Chris Walsh (Apr 07)
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- Re: Senator questions FBI on ChoicePoint contract *Hobbit* (Apr 07)
- Re: Senator questions FBI on ChoicePoint contract blitz (Apr 08)
- Re: Senator questions FBI on ChoicePoint contract security curmudgeon (Apr 07)