As many as 35,000 Californians may have had their credit card numbers, social security numbers, and other personal information compromised when hackers accessed identification and credential verification service provider ChoicePoint’s data servers.

Hacks into ChoicePoint’s system have already lead to six documented cases of identity theft in California alone. Authorities say that “hundreds of thousands of Americans elsewhere may be at risk”.

In addition, Chuck Jones, a spokesman for the Georgia-based ChoicePoint says that “ChoicePoint has not notified consumers in other states, nor is it working with law enforcement agents elsewhere”.

California is a special case because it has a law… [Continued…]