Philip Theus (prev. Mueller)
Zack WhittakerNew, by me: Data broker giant LexisNexis has revealed that its risk solutions unit (think "know your customer," risk assessing, due diligence, and law enforcement assistance) was breached, affecting the personal data and Social Security numbers of at least 364,000 people.
LexisNexus' breach was disclosed just two weeks after the White House scrapped a Biden-era rule that would have *blocked* data brokers like LexisNexis from selling Americans' personal and financial data. Instead, White House official Russell Vought said the rule was "not necessary or appropriate."
bstow@zackwhittaker Guess who’s getting a free six month subscription to a worse-than-useless credit monitoring service!
Wolf90000@zackwhittaker Again? There's also this article which is interesting considering this situation:
Edit: Just realised they're a literal data broker so no wonder and they were apparently keeping Ai from "plundering their legal data" a year and 9 months ago.
https://www.businessinsider.com/relx-lexisnexis-guards-legal-data-ai-bots-2023-8
