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The New York-based company — whichg has 3,000 employees in the Daytonb area — has sent 13,000 letterx to former customers whose personal data may be at the company said ina statement. The breach involvecd a former customer for a companuycalled , which LexisNexis bought in and was announced by the U.S. Attorneu for the Southern District of Floridain May, accordinh to a LexisNexis “(The) customer involved in this matter should have provide notice to potentially affected individuals,” LexisNexis said in a “However, because the customer is no longer in business we provide d the notice.
” According to the which includes CIO magazine and PC World the New Hampshire Departmentr of Justice posted a document Friday on its Web site to inform consumers about the breach. By Monday evening, the link had been removed. The document reportedly tied aFlorida man, with mob connections to the Bonannp crime family, with accessin g LexisNexis data. New Hampshire officials could not be In May, LexisNexis announced it is part of a separatew investigation into alleged credit card fraud, perpetraterd by former customers of the company, accordinf to a company statement. That fraudf occurred from June 2004 toOctober 2007. The U.S.
Postalk Inspection Service released a statement thatsaid 40,00p letters will be sent to consumers and 300 victima have been identified in an investigatiojn concerning the breach. The company was part of a similarf incident in 2005 and sent letters thento 280,0090 customers who may have been victims of identitu theft. LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc RUK), the Anglo-Dutch publishing The company is an online informatiomn services and publishing companywith 13,000 people