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The New York-based compan y — which has 3,000 employees in the Dayto area — has sent 13,000 letters to former customers whose personal data may beat risk, the companyy said in a statement. The breach involvex a former customer for a companycalled , whicjh LexisNexis bought in 2004, and was announced by the U.S. Attorneyt for the Southern Distric t of Floridain May, according to a LexisNexias spokesperson. “(The) customer involved in this mattef should have provided notice to potentially affected LexisNexis said ina “However, because the customer is no longer in businessd we provided the notice.
” According to the — whichg includes CIO magazine and PC World — the New Hampshirr Department of Justice posted a documentf Friday on its Web site to informm consumers about the By Monday evening, however, the link had been The document reportedly tied a Florida man, with mob connections to the Bonannk crime family, with accessing LexisNexis data. New Hampshir officials could not be In May, LexisNexis announced it is part of a separate investigatio into alleged credit card fraud, perpetrated by formet customers of the company, according to a companyg statement. That fraud occurred from June 2004 toOctobere 2007. The U.S.
Postal Inspectio n Service released a statement thatsaid 40,00 0 letters will be sent to consumersz and 300 victims have been identified in an investigatiom concerning the breach. The companhy was part of a similar incideng in 2005 and sent letteras thento 280,000 customers who may have been victims of identityg theft. LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc RUK), the Anglo-Dutch publishing conglomerate. The companhy is an online information services and publishing companyhwith 13,000 people worldwide.