New LexisNexis Data Breach Confirmed After Hackers Leak Files

LexisNexis has confirmed a data breach after hackers leaked data allegedly stolen from its systems, but the legal and risk solutions giant claims the impact is limited. 

The hackers announced the intrusion on a cybercrime forum on Tuesday. Based on their statement, they attempted to extort LexisNexis but were unsuccessful.

Representatives of LexisNexis Legal & Professional said in a statement to the media that while the attackers did gain access to some servers, the compromised systems mostly stored legacy and deprecated data from prior to 2020.

The company has confirmed that information such as customer names, user IDs, business contact details, the IPs of customer survey respondents, and support tickets was compromised.

“LexisNexis Legal & Professional has investigated a security matter and based on the investigation and testing we have done to date, we believe the matter is contained,” the company said. “We have no evidence of compromise of or ...