Lee Klein, 39, of Boynton Beach, was one of 11 defendants charged in May with racketeering in the U.S. District Court for Southern Florida.
Klein was employed by a now-defunct company that purchased computer searches of public records from Seisint, a Boca Raton company purchased by LexisNexis in 2004, Ludlum said.
Klein’s employer had a legal permissible use for the information, but Klein was using it for other purposes, Ludlum said.
Klein’s employer is not identified in court documents.
Both Ludlum and a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to identify the employer.
Seisint’s products include Accurint, which is used for background checks on individuals by government, law enforcement and private companies.
Ordinarily, Klein’s employer should have provided notice to those potentially affected by Klein’s activities, but since that business has folded, LexisNexis decided to send out letters, Ludlum said.
“We provided notice because the customer was no longer in business and because we believed individuals should be notified based on the investigation,” Ludlum said. “As such, we notified all individuals whose information could have been viewed in connection with the limited searches that law enforcement believed were unauthorized.”
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