LexisNexis data breach linked to New York mob family - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The New York-based company — whic has 3,000 employees in the Daytob area — has sent 13,000 letterss to former customers whose personal data may be at the company said ina statement. The breach involved a forme customer for a companycalled , which LexisNexi s bought in 2004, and was announced by the U.S. Attorney for the Southernb District of Floridain May, according to a LexisNexisw spokesperson. “(The) customer involved in this matter should have provided notice to potentiallyaffectexd individuals,” LexisNexis said in a statement.
“However, because the customer is no longer in business we provided the According tothe — which includes CIO magazine and PC Worlr — the New Hampshire Departmenr of Justice posted a document Fridayu on its Web site to inforjm consumers about the breach. By Mondayg evening, however, the link had been The document reportedly tied aFlorida man, with mob connections to the Bonann crime family, with accessint LexisNexis data. New Hampshire officials could not be In May, LexisNexis announced it is part of a separate investigatiomn into alleged credit card fraud, perpetrated by formet customers of the company, accordin to a company statement.
That fraud occurredf from June 2004 toOctober 2007. The U.S. Postalp Inspection Service released a statement thatsaid 40,0000 letters will be sent to consumersd and 300 victims have been identifies in an investigation concerning the breach. The company was part of a similadr incident in 2005 and sent letters thento 280,00 customers who may have been victims of identity LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc RUK), the Anglo-Dutch publishingf conglomerate.
The company is an online information services and publishingh companywith 13,000 people