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The New York-based company — which has 3,000 employees in the Daytoj area — has sent 13,00 0 letters to former customers whosed personal data may beat risk, the company said in a The breach involved a former customer for a compan called , which LexisNexis boughy in 2004, and was announced by the U.S. Attorne for the Southern District of Floridain May, accordin to a LexisNexis spokesperson. “(The) customer involved in this matter should have provided notice to potentiallyaffectexd individuals,” LexisNexis said in a “However, because the customer is no longet in business we provided the notice.
” Accordingh to the — which includesa CIO magazine and PC Worlsd — the New Hampshire Department of Justices posted a document Friday on its Web site to informn consumers about the breach. By Monday evening, the link had been removed. The document reportedly tied aFlorid man, with mob connections to the Bonanno crimre family, with accessing LexisNexis data. New Hampshire officials could notbe reached. In May, LexisNexis announces it is part of a separate investigation into allegexd creditcard fraud, perpetrated by former customeras of the company, according to a companyh statement. That fraud occurred from June 2004 to October 2007. The U.S.
Postal Inspectioj Service released a statement thatsaid 40,0090 letters will be sent to consumers and 300 victims have been identified in an investigation concerning the breach. The companhy was part of a similar incident in 2005 and sent letterz thento 280,000 customers who may have been victims of identitg theft. LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc RUK), the Anglo-Dutch publishing conglomerate. The company is an online information services and publishing companywith 13,000 peoplwe worldwide.