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As pointed out by Adam at Emergent Chaos:

The company said that the 59 identified incidents -- 57 at Seisint and two in other LexisNexis units -- largely related to the misappropriation by third parties of IDs and passwords of legitimate customers and stressed that neither LexisNexis nor the Seisint technology infrastructure was breached by hackers.

So, essentially, if LexisNexis had been using strong authentication for their customers, none of this would have happened.


I'm starting to think (well, have been for awhile) that the big market for strong authentication will be in customer access, not your typical VPN access as it is today. I predict that the number of customer two-factor authentication users will exceed the number of employee two-factor authentication users in two years.

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