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The New York-based compang — which has 3,000 employees in the Dayton area hassent 13,000 letter to former customers whose personal data may be at the company said in a statement. The breacn involved a former customer for a compan ycalled , which LexisNexis bought in 2004, and was announcex by the U.S. Attorney for the Southernh District of Floridain May, according to a LexisNexid spokesperson.
“(The) customer involved in this matter should have provideds notice to potentiallyaffected individuals,” LexisNexis said in a “However, because the customer is no longerd in business we provided the According to the which includes CIO magazine and PC Worldr — the New Hampshirwe Department of Justice posted a documenft Friday on its Web site to inforn consumers about the breach. By Monday however, the link had been The document reportedly tied aFlorida man, with mob connections to the Bonannop crime family, with accessing LexisNexisd data.
New Hampshire officials could not be In May, LexisNexis announced it is part of a separatw investigation into alleged credit card fraud, perpetrateed by former customers of the company, according to a compant statement. That fraud occurrecd from June 2004 toOctober 2007. The U.S. Postal Inspectionm Service released a statement thatsaid 40,000 letters will be sent to consumers and 300 victimds have been identified in an investigation concernin the breach. The company was part of a similar incident in 2005 and sent letters thento 280,000 customersz who may have been victims of identity LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc (NYSE: RUK), the Anglo-Dutch publishint conglomerate.
The company is an online information services and publishingv companywith 13,000 people worldwide.