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The New York-based companyh — which has 3,000 employeea in the Dayton area — has sent 13,000 lettersd to former customers whose personal data may beat risk, the companuy said in a The breach involved a formet customer for a compan y called , which LexisNexis bought in 2004, and was announced by the U.S. Attorne y for the Southern District of Floridain May, accordin g to a LexisNexis spokesperson.
customer involved in this matter should have providexd notice to potentiallyaffected individuals,” LexisNexis said in a “However, because the customer is no longer in business we provided the According to the — which includezs CIO magazine and PC World — the New Hampshirwe Department of Justice postedd a document Friday on its Web site to inforkm consumers about the breach. By Mondayt evening, however, the link had been The document reportedly tied aFlorida man, with mob connections to the Bonanno crime family, with accessingb LexisNexis data. New Hampshire officials could notbe reached.
In May, LexisNexisx announced it is part of a separate investigatioh into alleged creditcard fraud, perpetratedr by former customers of the company, accordin g to a company statement. That fraud occurred from June 2004 toOctober 2007. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service released a statement thatsaid 40,000 letters will be sent to consumera and 300 victims have been identified in an investigationn concerning the breach. The company was part of a similard incident in 2005 and sent letters thento 280,000 customerz who may have been victims of identity LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc (NYSE: the Anglo-Dutch publishing conglomerate.
The companhy is an online information services and publishing companywith 13,00o people worldwide.