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LexisNexis Breach Worse Than Believed
Rollie Hawk writes "Worldwide law and news sifter LexisNexis has some bad news of its own this time. Actually, "bad" might sharply understate the situation.
More than a month after disclosing information on a database breach that led to 32,000 customer IDs being stolen, the results of an internal review showed that in fact the damage was nearly ten times worse than previously thought.
LexisNexis is already "offering free support services, including credit bureau reports, credit monitoring for one year and fraud insurance" to the nearly 300,000 additional victims it will soon be contacting, according to a Reed Elsevier statement to the Regulatory News Service. So far, no identity thefts have been reported by earlier victims, at least some of whom had private information such as addresses and Social Security numbers unwittingly divulged."
Just when I thought it was safe to come out of my concrete bunker, I see 300,000 people's identities stolen. [puts tin foil hat back on, slams steel door]
Na, more like
Dear clients, We got owned. We got owned in a big way. We got so owned in fact we are not sure we are sending this letter to you or to the person who stole you identity information (if you are the thief you are a very very bad person and somewhere a kitten is crying because of what you did)
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
but to be fair, maybe they offered them chocolate for all that personal information.
who can resist chocolate?
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