Lexis Nexis has been compromised and has hemorrhaged the personal information of tens of thousands of individuals whose data was stored with Lexis Nexis. Identity theft is a real possibilty for these people.

Many will remember that this exact same thing happened to ChoicePoint just last month.

Lexis Nexis, like ChoicePoint before it, is a storehouse for the very personal information of millions of individuals, including social security and drivers license numbers, the favourites of identity thieves.

In this age of masses of personal information being stored on computers connected to the Internet, identity theft is a real issue, and it’s not surprising that this sort of things happens. But here is the thing…

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