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We Know Who You Are. Maybe.

USA Today and other newspapers have been following a story about identity theft that ought to scare the bezeejus out of you.
Criminals targeted ChoicePoint, a company that keeps a database containing over 19 billion records on Americans. According to the article, “The criminals opened 50 accounts and received volumes of data on consumers, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers and credit reports

About Dan Goldgeier

Dan Goldgeier is a Seattle-based copywriter with experience at advertising agencies across the U.S. He is a graduate of the Creative Circus ad school, and currently teaches at Seattle's School of Visual Concepts. Dan is also a columnist for TalentZoo.com and the author of View From The Cheap Seats and Killer Executions and Scrubbed Decks.

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  1. Shawn says

    As an aside on this same subject, Bruce Schneier recently ‘pushed to the mainstream’ the story of firefighter, Philip Scott Lyons. Mr. Lyons was arrested and charged with arson with the biggest piece of evidence coming from his shopping purchases which were tracked with his Safeway Club Card.
    All charges were dropped in January ’05 after another individual stepped forward.
    Security Risk of Frequent-Shopper Cards on Schneier.com.