LexisNexis warns of possible data breach

LexisNexis warns of possible data breach
Notifies 32,000 people that personal data may have compromised

By Amy Westfeldt

updated 7:02 p.m. ET, Fri., May 1, 2009
NEW YORK - The LexisNexis online information service is warning 32,000 people their personal information may have been improperly accessed in a credit card fraud scheme that postal officials say bilked hundreds.

New York-based LexisNexis says in a letter mailed Friday that former customers of the service may have viewed information including names, birth dates and Social Security numbers.

U.S. Postal Service officials have launched a criminal investigation and say 300 people in the databases of LexisNexis and a Santa Fe, N.M., company called Investigative Professionals were victims in the credit card fraud scheme. No suspects have been arrested.

Somebody tried to scam me last week on Craigslist on a rental ad I placed there. They sent me phony postal money orders to deposit and wanted me to send them back the excess, over and above the rent. I didnt, and went to the postal authorities and local police, but they didnt seem all that interested, maybe because it happens a lot and its probably out of their jurisdiction.

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