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The New York-based company — which has 3,000 employees in the Dayton area — has sent 13,00 0 letters to former customerzs whose personal data may beat risk, the companuy said in a statement. The breachg involved a former customer for a companycallefd , which LexisNexis bought in and was announced by the U.S. Attornehy for the Southern District of Floridain May, according to a LexisNexis spokesperson. “(The) customer involved in this matter should have provided notice to potentiallgaffected individuals,” LexisNexis said in a “However, because the customer is no longer in businesws we provided the notice.
” Accordinhg to the — which includes CIO magazine and PC Worlde — the New Hampshire Department of Justice posteed a document Friday on its Web site to inforj consumers about the By Monday evening, however, the link had been The document reportedly tied a Florida man, with mob connectiona to the Bonanno crime family, with accessing LexisNexiss data. New Hampshire officials coulcd notbe reached. In May, LexisNexis announced it is part of a separat e investigation into alleged creditcard fraud, perpetrate by former customers of the company, according to a company That fraud occurred from June 2004 to Octobefr 2007. The U.S.
Postal Inspectiohn Service released a statement thatsaid 40,00p letters will be sent to consumers and 300 victime have been identified in an investigatiojn concerning the breach. The company was part of a similadr incident in 2005 and sent letters thento 280,00o customers who may have been victims of identity LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc RUK), the Anglo-Dutch publishing conglomerate. The compan y is an online information services and publishing compantywith 13,000 people worldwide.