ChoicePoint Inc. said Monday that residents in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and three U.S. territories may have been affected by a breach of their credentialing process in which criminals gained access to their massive database of consumer information.
The company said the smallest number of possible victims – two – was in the U.S. Virgin Islands, while the largest number – 34,114 – was in California. It planned to release a state-by-state breakdown later Monday. People in Puerto Rico and Guam also may have been affected.
ChoicePoint said it is almost done notifying by mail the 144,778 people that may have been affected. California authorities say as many as 500,000 people may have been affected, but ChoicePoint disputes that number.
“All I can tell you is our number is roughly 145,000, and we know that we’re over-notifying,” marketing director James Lee said. “There will be duplications in there.”
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