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        <title>ChoicePoint Incorporated</title>
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        <description>A collection of news and information related to ChoicePoint Incorporated published by Tribune Company sources.</description>
        
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			<title><![CDATA[Insurance claims could haunt houses]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2007-10-24 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[If past history is any measure, many homeowners affected by the wildfires burning throughout Southern California will find that claims they submit to insurers will result in higher rates or even dropped policies.

What they, and you, may not know is...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hacking It]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/bal-to.rubin17aug17,0,1745176.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2005-08-17 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Avi Rubin is known for annoying large companies and important people.

Two years ago, the Johns Hopkins University professor first alerted the country to troubling vulnerabilities in electronic voting, much to the consternation of election officials and...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The week ahead]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/sns-yourmoney-0121weekahead,0,5528181.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2007-01-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Monday: Earnings: A.O. Smith Corp.; American Express Co.; Compass Bancshares Inc.; CSX Corp.; Eaton Corp.; Packaging Corporation of America; Texas Instruments Inc.; Wintrust Financial Corp.; Woodward Governor Co.

Tuesday: Earnings: Advanced Micro Devices...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Insurers offering policies for ID theft]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/bal-bz.theftinsure19jun19,0,4914135.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2005-06-19 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[After someone used Robert Nighan's credit card to charge $2,000 worth of golf clubs in California, the insurance executive got an idea.

Nighan - who doesn't play golf and lives in Hartford, Conn. - figured out a way to make crime pay legally: Sell an...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[40 million credit card numbers are at risk]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2005-06-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In the largest reported breach of personal data, hackers infiltrated the computers at a credit card processing center and stole as many as 40 million card numbers, MasterCard International disclosed yesterday.

MasterCard said card numbers and...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Missing data is latest in rash of breaches]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/bal-te.bz.citi08jun08,0,5657850.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2005-06-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[When CitiFinancial, the Baltimore-based consumer-finance division of Citigroup Inc., put a box of computer tapes that documented the financial habits of its customers on a UPS truck in Weehawken, N.J., last month, the shipment represented one routine step...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Making a fresh start after identity theft]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/bal-social0711,0,7071716.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2005-07-11 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As companies roll out a growing variety of tools to combat identity theft, some Americans are taking a more radical step: changing their Social Security number.

Traditionally, trading in an old number for a new one is something attempted in only the most...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ChoicePoint had earlier data leak]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/bal-choicept0302,0,6139382.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2005-03-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 records show.

Two Nigerian-born fraud artists were...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Md. legislators to offer bill on ID theft]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/bal-bz.choicepoint02mar02,0,344962.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2005-03-02 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Maryland legislators are expected to introduce legislation to protect personal information from identity fraud in response to the security breach at ChoicePoint Inc. in which thieves acquired data on thousands of consumers.

The legislation could be...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Florida net too wide in purge of voter rolls]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/bv-florida010521,0,7791488.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2001-05-21 10:27:57</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Harry Sawyer, election supervisor in Key West, was stunned when Florida officials sent him a list of 150 convicted felons to cut from county voter rolls in mid-1999. 

Among those named: an election employee, another worker's husband--and Sawyer's own...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Data broker hires U.S. security official]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/bal-bz.choicepoint09mar09,0,3556240.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2005-03-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[ATLANTA - Data broker ChoicePoint Inc., whose enormous consumer-information file was breached last fall, said yesterday that it has hired a top official at the government agency that oversees airport screening to review the way the company screens its...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Huge theft of identity data could have victims in Md.]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/bal-te.bz.choicepoint22feb22,0,7996649.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2005-02-22 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Data collection company ChoicePoint Inc. said yesterday that it will notify 2,750 Marylanders who may have been victimized in what privacy experts said could become one of the largest identity theft cases ever.

ChoicePoint said it is in the process of...]]></description>
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