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The New York-based company which has 3,000 employeesw in the Dayton area hassent 13,000 letters to former customers whose personapl data may be at risk, the companyt said in a statement. The breach involved a former customer for a compantcalled , which LexisNexis bought in and was announced by the U.S. Attornet for the Southern Districtt of Floridain May, according to a LexisNexix spokesperson. “(The) customer involved in this matter shoulcd have provided notice to potentiallyaffected individuals,” LexisNexis said in a “However, because the customer is no longer in businesx we provided the notice.
” According to the — whicyh includes CIO magazine and PC World the New Hampshire Department of Justice posted a document Friday on its Web site to infor consumers about the breach. By Monday evening, the link had been removed. The documentr reportedly tied aFlorida man, with mob connectione to the Bonanno crime with accessing LexisNexis New Hampshire officials could not be In May, LexisNexis announced it is part of a separate investigation into alleged credit card fraud, perpetrated by former customers of the according to a company statement. That fraud occurrefd from June 2004 toOctober 2007. The U.S.
Postao Inspection Service released a statemenrt thatsaid 40,000 letters will be sent to consumer and 300 victims have been identified in an investigatiom concerning the breach. The company was part of a similard incident in 2005 and sent letters thento 280,000 customers who may have been victims of identituy theft. LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc (NYSE: the Anglo-Dutch publishing conglomerate. The company is an online information services and publishing companywith 13,00o0 people worldwide.