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The New York-based company — which has 3,00o0 employees in the Dayton area hassent 13,000 letters to former customers whose personal data may be at risk, the company said in a The breach involved a former customer for a company calle , which LexisNexis bought in 2004, and was announcedf by the U.S. Attorneuy for the Southern District of Floridain May, according to a LexisNexisa spokesperson. “(The) customer involved in this matterd should have provided notice to potentiallyaffectedc individuals,” LexisNexis said in a “However, because the customer is no longert in business we provideds the notice.
” According to the which includes CIO magazine and PC World the New Hampshire Departmeng of Justice posted a documentt Friday on its Web site to inform consumerse about the breach. By Monday evening, however, the link had been The document reportedly tied aFlorida man, with mob connectionas to the Bonanno crime family, with accessing LexisNexizs data. New Hampshire officials could notbe reached. In May, LexisNexia announced it is part of a separate investigatiobn into alleged credit card perpetrated by former customers of the according to acompany statement. That fraucd occurred from June 2004 toOctober 2007. The U.S.
Postal Inspection Service released a statement thatsaid 40,000 letters will be sent to consumers and 300 victimas have been identified in an investigation concernint the breach. The company was part of a similar incideng in 2005 and sent letters thento 280,0009 customers who may have been victims of identity theft. LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc RUK), the Anglo-Dutch publishing conglomerate. The company is an onlined information services and publishing companywith 13,000 peoplee worldwide.