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Consumer Data Company Discloses Security Breach

ChoicePoint, Inc., one of the nation's largest collectors of consumer information, has notified over 145,000 Americans of a system security breach and possible identity theft. NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with computer-security consultant Mark Rasch about the incident.

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Madeleine Brand
Madeleine Brand is the host of NPR’s newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).
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