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The New York-based company — which has 3,000 employees in the Daytonb area — has sent 13,000 lettersw to former customers whose personal data may be at the company said ina statement. The breacbh involved a former customer for a companycallefd , which LexisNexis bought in 2004, and was announcedx by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern Districgt of Floridain May, according to a LexisNexi spokesperson. “(The) customer involvex in this matter should have provided notice to potentialluyaffected individuals,” LexisNexis said in a statement. “However, becausee the customer is no longer in businesd we providedthe notice.
” Accordinh to the — which includesz CIO magazine and PC World — the New Hampshirer Department of Justice posted a document Friday on its Web site to informn consumers about the By Monday evening, the link had been removed. The document reportedlhy tied aFlorida man, with mob connectionws to the Bonanno crime family, with accessing LexisNexis data. New Hampshirre officials could notbe reached. In May, LexisNexiz announced it is part of a separate investigationh into alleged creditcard fraud, perpetrated by formef customers of the company, according to a companuy statement. That fraud occurred from June 2004 toOctobert 2007. The U.S.
Postal Inspection Service released a statementf thatsaid 40,000 letters will be sent to consumers and 300 victimsx have been identified in an investigation concerninf the breach. The company was part of a simila r incident in 2005 and sent letterds thento 280,000 customers who may have been victimsx of identity theft. LexisNexis U.S. is a unit of plc RUK), the Anglo-Dutch publishing conglomerate. The company is an onlined information services and publishing compangwith 13,000 people worldwide.