[Dataloss] follow-up: Firm Hired After Security Breach Faces State Probe (fwd)

[Adam Shostack]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:24:26AM +0000, security curmudgeon wrote:

| http://www.courant.com/business/hc-debix0822.artaug22,0,3146872.story
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| The state received complaints after those people received letters from 
| Experian, one of the three credit bureaus, asking for confidential 
| information in order to continue the monitoring, Rell said.
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It's unsurprising that the credit agencies are playing games.  I'm
sure it has nothing to do with trying to protect their highly
profitable credit monitoring businesses.  They just want to make sure
they can preserve the miracle of instant credit.

Adam