In identity theft, the hits have just kept coming since aggregator ChoicePoint revealed in February that scammers illicitly got data on 145,000 individuals from its databases. Within weeks, ChoicePoint became one target of a Congressional committee hearing in March on ID security, along with LexisNexis, where hackers broke into a subsidiary and made off with data on 32,000 names. Other recent data scares include the March theft of a UC Berkeley laptop that may have contained personal info on 98,000 current and former students, and a burglary at a California medical group in early April that exposed the financial and health records of as many as 185,000 patients. Even the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles had to send letters to 8,900 clients telling them their private data was taken during a break-up at a North Las Vegas office a month ago
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