LexisNexis warns 13, 000 consumers of breach after alleged mafia bust

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LexisNexis Warns of Breach After Alleged Mafia Bust


Robert McMillan, IDG News Service


 


Information broker LexisNexis has warned more than 13,000 consumers, saying
that a Florida man who is facing charges in an alleged mafia racketeering
conspiracy may have accessed some of the same sensitive consumer databases
that were once used to track terrorists.

 

Lee Klein, 39, of Boynton Beach, Florida, was charged
<http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls/PressReleases/090521-02.html>  by the U.S.
Department of Justice in May following an undercover sting operation that
netted 11 suspects from an alleged South Florida crew of the Bonanno crime
family. 

 

On Friday, the office of the New Hampshire Attorney General posted a letter
<http://doj.nh.gov/consumer/pdf/LexisNexis5.pdf>  that LexisNexis sent out
to consumers last month, warning that Klein may have used his access to
LexisNexis' Seisint databases "in order to perpetrate certain crimes."

 

LexisNexis has had problems with credit card fraudsters using its database
in the past, but Klein's alleged crimes are different.

 

In court filings, the DOJ says Klein would provide Bonanno family members
with names, addresses and account numbers as part of a fake check-cashing
operation. But he's also accused of using computer databases to get
information on potential extortion or assault targets as well as
"individuals suspected by the Enterprise members of being involved with law
enforcement."

 

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