While not admitting any wrong-doing in the security breach, ChoicePoint also agreed to set up a $5 million fund to reimburse consumers injured by the theft. Last month ChoicePoint agreed to pay a $10 million fine to settle charges that the theft of personal and credit-card data resulted from unfair or deceptive practices by the company.
A California consumer-protection law required the disclosure. The fraud was finally made public about a year ago, when ChoicePoint revealed that identity thieves had gained illegal access to its data records and breached the information security of as many as 145,000 consumers. In that capacity, he and others in his employment tricked ChoicePoint and reportedly gained access to the addresses, real estate records, bank information and other details it had collected on more than 1,500 consumers, using that data to access existing credit accounts or open new ones with stolen names. There is little likelihood that the fines imposed in the verdict will be collected.įor at least two years beginning in 2002, Oluwatosin used cellphones, fake addresses and anonymous mail drops to create fraudulent collection businesses of which he was the owner. Once you have a running DataThief, select 'Open. On Macintoshes with MacOS X and on Linux or Unix either double click the Datathief icon, or go to the directory where you installed DataThief and type Datathief. On Macintoshes with MacOS 8 or MacOS 9, double click the Datathief application icon. With time already served, he could be released in about four years and might then face deportation back to his native Nigeria, his lawyer reported. On Windows, double click the Datathief.jar icon. In October, he pleaded guilty to stealing more than $2.5 million through the scam. Pages 39 This preview shows page 11 - 13 out of 39 pages. School Universiteit Utrecht Course Title PSYCHOLOGY 123 Uploaded By silviabrooks01.
Adapted from hick 1952 figure 2 p 17 using datathief. Oluwatosin was serving a 16-month prison sentence for another identity theft conviction when he was indicted in the ChoicePoint case last August. Adapted from Hick 1952 Figure 2 p 17 using DataThief II Tummers 2000 Data of. Oluwatunji Oluwatosin was also ordered to pay $2 million in restitution to ChoicePoint and about $6 million to the banks that suffered credit-card losses in the theft. the scatter ent regularity of this phenomenon reported for tropical bat species plots, using the DATA THIEF II program (Tummers 2006). The man who pled guilty to stealing personal information from consumer data collector ChoicePoint was sentenced to 10 years in California state prison Friday for defrauding the Alpharetta GA-based aggregator and seller of consumer data, as well as banks and consumers around the nation.