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Experian Breach Tied to NY-NJ ID Theft Ring
- hga 12y agoA bit slimy to defer to the penultimate paragraph this minor detail about Experian's role, which could also plausibly explain its earlier claimed ignorance of the severity: "According to U.S. government investigators, the data was not obtained directly from Experian, but rather via Columbus, Ohio-based US Info Search. US Info Search had a contractual agreement with a California company named Court Ventures, whereby customers of Court Ventures had access to the US Info Search data as well as Court Ventures’ data, and vice versa. Experian came into the picture in March 2012, when it purchased Court Ventures (along with all of its customers — including Mr. Ngo). For almost ten months after Experian completed that acquisition, Ngo continued siphoning consumer data and making his wire transfers."