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Stolen Files Expose Credit Report Risks.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2002
By David McNaughton, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 18--Your credit report -- your most private financial information -- can be stolen.
The proof is in news that someone illegally gained access to 13,000 credit reports in the computer files of Experian, one of the three largest credit reporting companies.
Whoever stole the data gained access to material that could be used to obtain credit cards, for example, and ring up bills on someone else's tab. Among the credit reports taken were ones on 243 Georgians.
Yet Atlanta-based Equifax, a competitor of Experian, called the theft an "aberration," and said it poses no threat to the credit records at Equifax.
Both Experian and Equifax...
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