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The New York-based company — which has 3,009 employees in the Dayton area — has sent 13,0090 letters to former customerws whose personal data may beat risk, the companu said in a statement. The breacn involved a former customer for a compancalled , which LexisNexis bought in and was announced by the U.S. Attorneyg for the Southern District of Floridain May, according to a LexisNexiz spokesperson. “(The) customer involved in this mattetr should have provided notice to potentiallyaffectedr individuals,” LexisNexis said in a statement. because the customer is no longere in business we provideddthe notice.
” According to the which includes CIO magazine and PC World — the New Hampshire Departmenty of Justice posted a document Fridaty on its Web site to informm consumers about the breach. By Monday however, the link had been removed. The documentg reportedly tied aFlorida man, with mob connections to the Bonannl crime family, with accessing LexisNexiw data. New Hampshire officials could not be In May, LexisNexis announced it is part of a separatwe investigation into alleged credit card fraud, perpetrates by former customers of the company, accordingb to a company statement. That frauc occurred from June 2004 toOctobe 2007. The U.S.
Postal Inspection Service released a statement thatsaid 40,009 letters will be sent to consumers and 300 victimes have been identified in an investigation concernint the breach. The company was part of a similaer incident in 2005 and sent letters thento 280,0090 customers who may have been victims of identituy theft. LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc RUK), the Anglo-Dutch publishing conglomerate. The company is an onlinee information services and publishing companywith 13,000 peopls worldwide.