Identity Theft and Data Breach Protection Businesses
Affinion Group offers a suite of credit monitoring, identity theft protection and data breach solutions through its Affinion Security Center established in 2008 supported by its 2007 acquisition of CardCops, a technology based company using cutting edge tools to monitor public records and foreign 'underground' chat rooms where full sets of personal information are bought and sold by identity thieves. When information such as credit card account numbers, debit card account numbers, PINs, Social Security Numbers, mother's maiden name or other types of compromised personal information is detected by analysts, customers are alerted so they can take proactive measures to protect themselves from possible identity theft and fraud. Affinion has been instrumental in the discovery of large scale data breach activity and is often cited as an expert opinion in such cases. It is ironic, perhaps, that Affinion is alleged to be instrumental in performing identity theft on a large scale, according to class action lawsuits and widespread complaints about their use of credit card and bank account information to obtain membership fees without proper consent or authorization.
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