Data Broker ChoicePoint: One Year After the Scandal
A year later after a scandal where it sold personal information on 145,000 people nationwide to an identity theft ring, Alpharetta-based ChoicePoint is quietly trying to put the episode in the past and keep growing its business of collecting and selling data for background checks and other verification purposes. Its sales pushed past $1 billion in 2005, although profit fell on costs related to the episode.
ChoicePoint's recovery, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 12, 2006.
