Consumers Data Stolen from LexisNexis

LE UI Guy writes "Reuters is currently running a story regarding LexisNexis being tapped into by identity thieves who accessed up to 32,000 customer profiles. Information hit included names, addresses, Social Security and driver's license numbers. This comes on the heels of rival ChoicePoint being breached for 145,000 profiles last month in a similar case. Better check yourself." Update: 03/10 02:40 GMT by J : ChoicePoint's name corrected (and, it may be more than 145,000, they don't know).

Comments

eh

[KingOfTheNerds]

This is a huge deal, but it's bound to happen. I should be bitter because I've had my identity stolen (somehow, may not be similar). What is this going to do to LexisNexis? They keep track of they keep track of government, law, and company data? I see some stock going down...

Heres how they got hacked:

[pcmanjon]

jon_k@112[~]$ HEAD lexusnexus.com
200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Connection: close
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:53:38 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0

Need I say more?