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ChoicePoint has billions of credit records on businesses and individuals. It sells those records to companies doing credit research. Criminals posing as businessmen gained access to ChoicePoint's data. 700 cases of identity theft related to the illegal ChoicePoint have been reported in Los Angeles alone. A California woman has sued ChoicePoint for fraud and negligence.

ChoicePoint maintains a database of information, including bank and criminal data, on virtually ever U.S. consumer. That information is sold to government agencies, prospective lenders and others.

The identity thieves were able to access Social Security numbers, credit histories, criminal records and other sensitive data, ChoicePoint has said.

The suit seeks to represent anyone whose personal records were maintained by ChoicePoint from October 2004 through the completion of the suit, regardless of whether or not that data was actually released to anyone.

It also claims that prospective class members, possibly numbering at least 145,000 in total, have suffered damages of less than $75,000 each.