100K IDs stolen and you don't know

Evan Derkacz
February 17, 2005

That's it, I'm getting myself an alias. First Guckert/Gannon gets into the WH just days after launching a journalism career and now criminals have set up fake businesses and gotten credit reporting co. ChoicePoint to release comprehensive information (we're talking everything but inseam measurements here) on 100,000 Americans. Will you be notified? Probably not. Is it being portrayed as criminal negligence? Nope. (Political Animal and Queso via CJR)

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