Data Broker Giant LexisNexis Says Breach Exposed Personal Information of Over 364,000 People (techcrunch.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/29/0232235/data-broker-giant-lexisnexis-says-breach-exposed-personal-information-of-over-364000-people
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/data-broker-giant-lexisnexis-says-breach-exposed-personal-information-of-over-364000-people/
> LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a data broker that collects and uses consumers' personal data to help its paying corporate customers detect possible risk and fraud, has [1]disclosed a data breach affecting more than 364,000 people . The company said in [2]a filing with Maine's attorney general that the breach, dating back to December 25, 2024, allowed a hacker to obtain consumers' sensitive personal data from a third-party platform used by the company for software development.
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> Jennifer Richman, a spokesperson for LexisNexis, told TechCrunch that an unknown hacker accessed the company's GitHub account. The stolen data varies, but includes names, dates of birth, phone numbers, postal and email addresses, Social Security numbers, and driver license numbers. It's not immediately clear what circumstances led to the breach. Richman said LexisNexis received a report on April 1, 2025 "from an unknown third party claiming to have accessed certain information." The company would not say if it had received a ransom demand from the hacker.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/data-broker-giant-lexisnexis-says-breach-exposed-personal-information-of-over-364000-people/
[2] https://www.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/782e2159-f2d4-4394-8d03-51bf08a6b3e5.html?2a8bf27469bf669a2753cacd93ca6a51ca952e56
So its only ... (Score:2)
So it's only the sort of personal information needed to identify oneself online, reset passwords to accounts, etc. What could go wrong.
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True, but probably ultimately not any worse than services that require you to put in data for "account recovery" that can easily be found with a few minutes of open source intelligence research. "What is your favorite sports team?" Well, if I'm from Dallas maybe it's the Cowboys. "What is the city you were born in?" Duh. "What is your mother's maiden name?" Well, maybe she never married or changed it back after divorce, or is listed on Facebook or something? Ugh.
Most of the stuff we use for identification a
justice (Score:2)
Anyone affected by the breach will receive one (1) free year of credit monitoring which will automatically renew at the standard rate of $999.99/year!
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So, they exported real data to GitHub??? (Score:4, Insightful)
> ...consumers' sensitive personal data from a third-party platform used by the company for software development.
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You _really_ didn't read the article did you ;-)
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Move fast and break things. ;-)
So LexisNexis' only complaint here... (Score:3)
So LexisNexis' only complaint here is that the privacy raping they charge their corporate customers for will now be done for free.
LexisNexis isn't the problem (Score:3)
Lack of laws that make Databrokers illegal are the problem. They have no reason to exist and don't offer anything of value to society.
Winning! (Score:2)
> Earlier this month, the Trump administration scrapped a plan that would have restricted data brokers from selling Americans’ personal and financial information, including Social Security numbers. White House official Russell Vought wrote in a Federal Register notice that the Biden-era rule, which would have required data brokers to follow the same federal privacy rules as credit bureaus and renter-screening companies, was “not necessary or appropriate,” despite long-standing calls by privacy advocates to close the loophole.
Winning! I can't believe all the winning! Of course, Biden didn't actually implement said rule after someone used his auto-pen to sign it while we was trying to navigate the stairs in the White House, but who cares? Have you ever seen so much winning?
And the dumbasses at Lexus Nexus who exported live data to Github? WINNERS!
Well that's embarrassing...... (Score:2)
LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a data broker that collects and uses consumers' personal data to help its paying corporate customers detect possible risk and fraud dating back to December 25, 2024. Doesn't say a lot for Their reputation !!!!
Title Correction: (Score:4, Informative)
"Giant Privacy Rapist LexisNexis Says Breach Exposed Personal Information of Over 364,000 People"
There FTFY.
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Pretty much. LexisNexis is like the private enterprise version of China's social credit score.
This was the company Chevy was selling their OnStar telemetry data to, so you could have your insurance premiums jacked up just for having the sort of driving patterns insurance companies consider to be high risk (which these days, is practically anything beyond leaving your car parked in the garage).
Zero Consent (Score:2)
It's impossible to get those Lexis fuckers to delete your information, too -- I've tried and was denied.