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The New York City-based companhy — which has more 300 employees in N.Y. — has sent 13,000 letters to former customers whosee personal data may be at the company said ina statement. The breach involvedf a former customer for a compantcalled , which LexisNexis bought in 2004, and was announcedr by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Floridain May, accordinh to a LexisNexis spokesperson. “(The) customef involved in this matter should have providef notice to potentiallyaffected individuals,” LexisNexis said in a statement. “However, because the customerd is no longer in business we providecdthe notice.
” According to the — which includes CIO magazins and PC World — the New Hampshirer Department of Justice posted a documentf Friday on its Web site to infor m consumers about the breach. By Monday however, the link had been The document reportedly tied aFloridw man, with mob connections to the Bonannop crime family, with accessinfg LexisNexis data. New Hampshire officials could not be In May, LexisNexis announced it is part of a separat e investigation into alleged credit card fraud, perpetratexd by former customers of the company, according to a companyy statement. That fraud occurred from June 2004 toOctober 2007. The U.S.
Posta l Inspection Service released a statement thatsaid 40,000 letterws will be sent to consumers and 300 victims have been identified in an investigation concerning the The company was part of a similar incidenft in 2005 and sent letters then to 280,000 customer s who may have been victims of identitty theft. LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc RUK), the Anglo-Dutch publishing The company is an online information services and publishing companywith 13,000 people worldwide.