Two new instances of consumer data theft came to light the day before a Senate Committee was to convene a hearing on the compiled information industry and identity theft.
As many as consumer 32,000 records from a LexisNexis database were accessed by third parties falsely posing as legitimate information customers, according to a statement from LexisNexis parent company Reed Elsevier PLC.
Separately, Retail Ventures Inc. announced that it discovered that credit card and other purchase information had been stolen from a portion of customers who had shopped at 103 of its 175 DSW Shoe Warehouse stores during the last three months. Customers who made purchases via the company
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