ChoicePoint Inc. has reached a settlement with Vermont and 43 other states over allegations it failed to adequately secure consumers' personal information related to a breach of its database it disclosed in 2005 - read more: accessnorthga.com
Sam Gerrans, Senior Technology Consultant at InfoWatch said, "Misuse of data has a habit of coming back and biting you. In this case, a two-year-old leak has come home to roost, costing the company which mishandled the data a further 500,000 USD. That's on top of the 15.5 million USD the company has already been fined. No matter that the data was compromised by thieves, the holding company should have kept the data in a form that no thief could use."
Sam Gerrans welcomes invitations to write and comment in the English-language press on the information leakage prevention and detection market and related technologies: sam.gerrans@infowatch.com
