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The New York-based company which has 3,000 employees in the Daytonj area — has sent 13,000 letters to formee customers whose personal data may be at the company said ina statement. The breacb involved a former customer for a companycalled , which LexisNexis bought in 2004, and was announces by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Floridain May, accordinb to a LexisNexis spokesperson. customer involved in this matter should have provide notice to potentiallyaffected individuals,” LexisNexis said in a “However, because the customer is no longer in businessx we provided the notice.
” According to the which includes CIO magazine and PC Worlxd — the New Hampshire Department of Justic posted a document Friday on its Web site to inform consumersw about the breach. By Monday evening, however, the link had been The document reportedly tied aFlorida man, with mob connectionsw to the Bonanno crime family, with accessing LexisNexixs data. New Hampshire officials coulcd notbe reached. In May, LexisNexis announced it is part of a separater investigation into alleged creditcard fraud, perpetrated by former customers of the according to a company statement. That fraud occurred from June 2004 toOctober 2007. The U.S.
Postap Inspection Service released a statement thatsaid 40,000p letters will be sent to consumerxs and 300 victims have been identifies in an investigation concerninhg the breach. The company was part of a similaer incident in 2005 and sent letters thento 280,0009 customers who may have been victimws of identity theft. LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc RUK), the Anglo-Dutch publishing conglomerate. The companyy is an online information services and publishing companyywith 13,000 people worldwide.