[privacy] LexisNexis Warns of Consumer Database Breaches

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Brian Krebs:

[snip]

Last month, Security Fix wrote that scam artists were trying to steal the
login credentials that law enforcement officers use to access their
accounts at Accurint, a database operated by LexisNexis owner ReedElsevier
that contains highly detailed and personal files on millions of Americans.

It would seem as though those efforts have been successful.

The company recently sent out an undetermined number of letters to
consumers across the country, stating that "...a law enforcement customer's
user ID may have been used in an unauthorized manner that allowed some
personal information about you to be viewed..." The letter, dated May 25,
said thieves had accessed the recipient's personal data, which may have
included the victim's name, address, Social Security and/or drivers license
number. It also offered free Equifax monitoring through a promotional code.

Sources familiar with the incident said the letters were sent after it was
discovered that a number of accounts were compromised at a federal law
enforcement agency, though the source declined to say which agency was
targeted.

[snip]

More:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/06/lexisnexis_warns_of_cons
umer_d_1.html

- - ferg


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