Organization Overview: LexisNexis

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LexisNexis Group is a company providing computer-assisted legal research services. In 2006 it had the world's largest electronic database for legal and public-records related information. LexisNexis world headquarters is located in Dayton, Ohio. Currently a division of Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis was first a product of the Mead Data Central company. The Anglo-Dutch publishing company Reed Elsevier has owned LexisNexis and its predecessor company since 1994. At its inception in 1970, the database was named LEXIS by Mead Data Central (MDC), a subsidiary of the Mead Corporation. It was a continuation of an experiment organized by the Ohio State Bar in 1967. On April 2, 1973, LEXIS launched publicly, offering full-text searching of all Ohio and New York cases. In 1980, LEXIS completed its...

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ID: 76: 59 admitted incidents in two years - up to 316,000 exposed

  • Date: 2005-04-12
  • Records Lost: 310,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: admin
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: LexisNexis, Accurint, Seisint, Port Orange Police Department , Reed Elsevier

ID: 478: Potentially hundreds or thousands of Social Security numbers of voters on LexisNexis

  • Date: 2006-10-26
  • Records Lost: Unknown
  • Source: N/A
  • Submitted by: admin
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: LexisNexis, Tuscarawas County Ohio

ID: 1593: Package containing laptop lost in transit

  • Date: 2006-10-27
  • Records Lost: Unknown
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: osf1
  • Location: OH, US
  • Organizations: LexisNexis

ID: 1710: Personal information accessed by unauthorised person due to compromised customer's user ID and government customer's user ID

  • Date: 2007-02-08
  • Records Lost: Unknown
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: osf1
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: LexisNexis

ID: 1832: Personal information about name, social security number, address and driver's license number accessed by an unauthorised person using customer's user ID

  • Date: 2006-12-15
  • Records Lost: Unknown
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: osf1
  • Location: FL, US
  • Organizations: LexisNexis, Seisint

ID: 1944: 32,000 notified about possibly compromised names, birth dates and Social Security numbers

  • Date: 2009-05-01
  • Records Lost: 32,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: Lyger
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: LexisNexis, Investigative Professional

ID: 2186: 13,329 notified about access of their personal information by possible connection to an organized crime family

  • Date: 2009-07-14
  • Records Lost: 13,329
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: Lyger
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: LexisNexis

ID: 2788: Personally identifiable information accessed by unauthorized employee

  • Date: 2008-02-06
  • Records Lost: Unknown
  • Source: Inside Malicious
  • Submitted by: pi3rce
  • Location: Sacramento CA, US
  • Organizations: LexisNexis, California Franchise Tax Board

ID: 3047: 3 incidents expose personal information to unauthorized individuals

  • Date: 2007-05-03
  • Records Lost: Unknown
  • Source: Unknown
  • Submitted by: pi3rce
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: LexisNexis

ID: 3097: 2 user accounts potentially compromised; exposing Social Security numbers of customers

  • Date: 2007-06-01
  • Records Lost: Unknown
  • Source: Unknown
  • Submitted by: pi3rce
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: LexisNexis

ID: 3749: Individual created fake collection agency to gain access to credit reports for fraudulent purposes

  • Date: 2009-06-19
  • Records Lost: 100,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: pi3rce
  • Location: NJ, US
  • Organizations: LexisNexis, Seisint

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