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    Acxiom, a little-known company based in Little Rock, Arkansas, is the world's largest processor of consumer data. It collects and analyzes over a billion consumer records per day. While keeping a low profile, it provides data to most major credit card companies, retailers, insurers, and automakers. A security breach was discovered where the personal data of millions of Americans had been hacked over two years from Acxiom's servers by a systems administrator. As Acxiom deals with privacy and national security issues, it was discovered that the company itself was hacked in this large data breach.

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    Acxiom, a little-known company based in Little Rock, Arkansas, is the world's largest processor of consumer data. It collects and analyzes over a billion consumer records per day. While keeping a low profile, it provides data to most major credit card companies, retailers, insurers, and automakers. A security breach was discovered where the personal data of millions of Americans had been hacked over two years from Acxiom's servers by a systems administrator. As Acxiom deals with privacy and national security issues, it was discovered that the company itself was hacked in this large data breach.

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    Acxiom, a little-known company based in Little Rock, Arkansas, is the world's largest processor of consumer data. It collects and analyzes over a billion consumer records per day. While keeping a low profile, it provides data to most major credit card companies, retailers, insurers, and automakers. A security breach was discovered where the personal data of millions of Americans had been hacked over two years from Acxiom's servers by a systems administrator. As Acxiom deals with privacy and national security issues, it was discovered that the company itself was hacked in this large data breach.

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    what may have been the biggest security breach banks, insurers, and automakers. It's a business that generates
    of consumer data ever. Searching the home of $1 billion in sales annually andTafter a few bumpy years, is
    Daniel Baas, a 24-year-old computer-systems ad- expected to produce $60 million in profits. Analysts project
    ministrator at a data-marketing firm, detectives earnings to grow 15% annually over the next five years.
    found dozens of compact discs containing the per- For most of its life, Acxiom (the "c" is silent) has kept a low
    sonal data of millions of Americans. The infor- profile—its corporate customers like it that way. But lately it
    mation, it turned out, had been hacked by Baas has found itself at the center of a white-hot swirl of anti-
    over a period of two years from a giant server in terrorism, national security, and consumer-privacy issues.
    Arkansas belonging to a company called Acxiom. Remember the flap about JetBlue giving passenger records
    Never heard of Acxiom? The publicly traded, politically con- to a government contractor? And the one about John Poindex-
    nected Little Rock company is the world's largest processor of ter's terrorism futures exchange? They all touched Acxiom.
    consumer data, collecting and massaging more than a billion And in the middle of all that, it now turns out, Acxiom it-
    records a day. Its customers include nine of the country's top self was getting hacked. While there's no evidence that Baas—

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