BrianKrebsMar 3

Whoops. The data broker giant LexisNexis has suffered another data breach. LN says the data taken was no big deal. The group claiming credit for the breach claims otherwise, of course.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lexisnexis-confirms-data-breach-as-hackers-leak-stolen-files/

This brings back memories of previous breach stories. One of my first big scoops that made the WaPo dead tree edition's front page involved a breach at LexisNexis in 2005 that exposed >300k consumer records. That breach was from a group of 15-18y/os in the US who also social engineered T-Mobile into giving them access to Paris Hilton's cell phone and the nudes w/in.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160513195758/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/19/AR2005051901854_pf.html

In 2013, I published a scoop about a LexisNexis breach that came from group of criminal hackers who had seized control over ssndob[.]ru, then the largest ID theft service in the underground. In that months-long investigation, we found the hackers had installed backdoors on servers at LexisNexis, Dun & Bradstreet, and Kroll and were using them as part of a small and custom data broker botnet.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/09/data-broker-giants-hacked-by-id-theft-service/

LexisNexis confirms data breach as hackers leak stolen files

American data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached its servers and accessed some customer and business information.

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That 2005 data breech was a big headache for me Wells Fargo who was my visa provider at the time called me and asked if I was in Connecticut buying stereo equipment.
I was not so they cancelled the card and we though all was well.

Over the course of the next few weeks multiple quick and instant credit applications were approved . Best was a vehicle dealer in Puerto Rico. Someone pretending to be me bought a car down there

Somehow he got my home phone number and called. I told him sorry when he kept asking if I was sure I did not buy a vehicle. I asked him can't he repossess it and he responded it probably is already in pieces by now.

I still have my credit locked.

Mar 3 at 8:57pmWeb