[Dataloss] FTC hasn't paid victims of breach at ChoicePoint

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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."

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