LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Disclosed Mar 10, 2005316,000 affectedSettled

Identity thieves used stolen passwords to pull data on 316,000 people from Accurint

Identity thieves exploited weak and easy to guess customer passwords on Seisint's Accurint databases, owned by LexisNexis parent Reed Elsevier, and through repeated breaches obtained Social Security and drivers license numbers of at least 316,000 consumers, which they used to open fraudulent accounts.

What is known

People affected	316,000 (as reported by the organization)
Disclosed	Mar 10, 2005
Attack	Credential stuffing
Data exposed	NamesAddressesDates of birthGovernment IDsSocial Security numbers
Sector	Data brokers · US
Status	Settled
Lawsuit or fine	FTC consent order with 20 years of audits (2008)

Sources

Newsweb.archive.org

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse: A Chronology of Data Breaches (archived December 2008)

Regulatorftc.gov

Agency Announces Settlement of Separate Actions Against Retailer TJX, and Data Brokers Reed Elsevier and Seisint

Notices filed

TotalMar 10, 2005

Research316,000 people

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History of this record

Added2026-09-25

First recordedby seedSource

First seen 2026-09-25 (Research), confirmed by Research. Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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