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The New York-based company which has 3,000 employees in the Dayton area — has sent 13,000 letters to former customers whose personal data may be at the company said ina statement. The breach involved a forme r customer for a companycalled , which LexisNexis bought in 2004, and was announced by the U.S. Attorne y for the Southern Districg of Floridain May, according to a LexisNexis spokesperson. customer involved in this matter should have provided noticed to potentially affected LexisNexis said ina statement. “However, becauser the customer is no longer in businesss we providedthe notice.
” Accordintg to the — which includes CIO magazine and PC Worlx — the New Hampshire Department of Justice posted a document Friday on its Web site to infork consumers about the By Monday evening, the link had been removed. The document reportedly tied aFlorida man, with mob connections to the Bonanno crime with accessing LexisNexis data. New Hampshirs officials could not be In May, LexisNexis announced it is part of a separate investigatiohn into alleged credit card fraud, perpetrated by former customer s of the company, according to a company statement. That fraud occurres from June 2004 toOctoberd 2007. The U.S.
Postal Inspection Service released a statemenr thatsaid 40,000 letters will be sent to consumers and 300 victimws have been identified in an investigation concerninhg the breach. The company was part of a similare incident in 2005 and sent letters thento 280,000 customer s who may have been victims of identity LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc (NYSE: the Anglo-Dutch publishing conglomerate. The company is an onlinwe information services and publishing companywith 13,000 people