An interesting read on the ChoicePoint saga

My colleague Mike Mimoso at Information Security Magazine landed an exclusive interview with the CISO of ChoicePoint, the embattled data broker with some big problems on its hands. Company got duped into providing criminals 145,000 private citizens' data for ID theft. Declined to alert any of them until it was too late. CEO lied about its track record with crooks. Will maybe end up behind bars with them when this is all over. In any case, the theft woke the world to just how much information companies gather and sell without our knowledge and, at present, without enough safeguards.