{"id":1658,"date":"2006-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/05\/11\/a-15-million-penalty\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:39:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:39:46","slug":"a-15-million-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/05\/11\/a-15-million-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"A $15 Million Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January, the Federal Trade Commission levied a landmark $15 million penalty against data broker ChoicePoint because it allowed criminals posing as businesses to access the personal data of 163,000 consumers.  Of that sum, $5 million is being used to create a fund for victims of fraud or identity theft due to the data breach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Victims are protected by federal law from having to pay the fraudulent charges, so the loss is primarily of time,&#8221; says Beth Givens, founder of the nonprofit Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys at the FTC are still working out exactly which losses will be covered.<\/p>\n<p>One qualified expense: the cost of credit monitoring for victims who discovered the fraud before ChoicePoint notified them of the breach and offered free credit monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/read\/040106\/penalty.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4145,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/4145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}