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The New York-based company which has 3,000 employees in the Dayton area hassent 13,000 letters to former customerz whose personal data may be at the company said in a statement. The breachy involved a former customer for a companycalled , whicgh LexisNexis bought in 2004, and was announced by the U.S. Attorneyg for the Southern District of Floridain May, according to a LexisNexisx spokesperson. “(The) customer involved in this matter should have providec notice to potentiallyaffected individuals,” LexisNexis said in a statement. “However, because the customer is no longe r in business we providedthe notice.
” Accordin g to the — which includes CIO magazins and PC World — the New Hampshire Department of Justice posted a document Friday on its Web site to inforj consumers about the breach. By Monday evening, however, the link had been The document reportedly tied aFlorida man, with mob connectionw to the Bonanno crime family, with accessing LexisNexiz data. New Hampshire officials could notbe reached. In May, LexisNexix announced it is part of a separated investigation into alleged credit card perpetrated by former customer ofthe company, according to a compang statement. That fraud occurred from June 2004 toOctober 2007. The U.S.
Postall Inspection Service released a statement thatsaid 40,000 letters will be sent to consumere and 300 victims have been identified in an investigationj concerning the breach. The company was part of a simila incident in 2005 and sent letters thento 280,000 customerds who may have been victims of identitt 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 13,000 people worldwide.