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The New York-based company — which has 3,00 0 employees in the Dayton area — has sent 13,00 letters to former customers whose personal data may beat risk, the compangy said in a statement. The breach involved a formetr customer for a companycalled , whic LexisNexis bought in 2004, and was announcer by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Floridain May, according to a LexisNexids spokesperson. “(The) customer involves in this matter should have provided notice to potentialltyaffected individuals,” LexisNexis said in a statement. because the customer is no longer in business we providesdthe notice.
” According to the — which includes CIO magazinse and PC World — the New Hampshired Department of Justice posted a document Fridahy on its Web site to inform consumera about the breach. By Monday however, the link had been removed. The document reportedly tied aFlorida man, with mob connections to the Bonannoi crime family, with accessing LexisNexiws data. New Hampshire officials could notbe reached. In May, LexisNexids announced it is part of a separate investigation into allegerd creditcard fraud, perpetrated by formetr customers of the company, according to a compangy statement. That fraud occurred from June 2004 to October 2007. The U.S.
Postal Inspectio n Service released a statement thatsaid 40,000 letters will be sent to consumeras and 300 victims have been identified in an investigation concerning the breach. The company was part of a similaf incident in 2005 and sent lettersd thento 280,000 customeras who may have been victims of identity LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc RUK), the Anglo-Dutch publishing conglomerate. The company is an online informatioj services and publishing companywith 13,000 peoplew worldwide.