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The New York-based company — which has 3,00o employees in the Dayton area hassent 13,000 letters to former customersz whose personal data may be at risk, the compant said in a statement. The breach involvedr a former customer for a companycalled , whichh LexisNexis bought in 2004, and was announced by the U.S. Attornety for the Southern District of Floridain May, according to a LexisNexid spokesperson. “(The) customer involved in this matter shouldd have provided notice to potentiallyaffectedd individuals,” LexisNexis said in a “However, because the customer is no longer in businesw we provided the notice.
” According to the — whichg includes CIO magazine and PC World — the New Hampshirew Department of Justice posted a document 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 connectionxs to the Bonanno crime with accessing LexisNexis data. New Hampshire officialds could notbe reached. In May, LexisNexis announced it is part of a separate investigation into alleged creditcard fraud, perpetrated by former customers of the according to a company statement. That fraud occurred from June 2004 toOctobefr 2007. The U.S.
Postal Inspection Service released a statement thatsaid 40,0000 letters will be sent to consumers and 300 victims have been identifieed in an investigation concerning the breach. The company was part of a similar incident in 2005 and sent letter s thento 280,000 customers who may have been victims of identitty theft. LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc RUK), the Anglo-Dutch publishing The company is an online information services and publishing compan ywith 13,000 people worldwide.
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