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LexisNexis

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One of the largest consumer-data holders in the US, and one of the few with real FCRA rights attached. LexisNexis Risk Solutions compiles public records and proprietary data into files that insurers, lenders, government agencies and law enforcement buy, and you can demand a copy, freeze it, and dispute it. Its California filing declares it collects minors' data, government ID numbers and precise geolocation. The catch is that "LexisNexis" is several legal entities, and which one you write to changes what happens.

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LexisNexis overview

At a glance

Quick facts

Redact's exposure rating

Substantial

LimitedModerateSubstantialExtensive

Data published: Editorial estimate
Re-listing frequency: Editorial estimate
Complaint record: Mixed
Opt-out friction: High
Operator opacity: Obscured
Prior data incidents: Confirmed breach

Our editorial assessment from public sources as of August 6, 2026, and our own opt-out testing as of August 10, 2026. Each dimension is scored 1 to 4, higher means more exposure, and the overall gauge is their average, unless a confirmed breach holds it higher. It is an opinion, not a finding about the company's conduct or legal compliance. Dimensions marked "Editorial estimate" are estimated from the kind of service offered rather than observed on this site. How we score

A confirmed prior data leak holds the overall rating at Substantial or higher; a major or repeat breach forces Extensive, regardless of the other five dimensions.

What each dimension means

Data published: how much and how sensitive the personal data they put out.
Re-listing frequency: how quickly you reappear after opting out.
Complaint record: the volume and pattern of complaints across BBB, Trustpilot, and Sitejabber. No listing, or a listing with no reviews, counts against the broker.
Opt-out friction: how hard the removal process is to complete.
Operator opacity: how hidden the operating company and its principals are.
Prior data incidents: history of breaches or leaks of the data they hold.

Category: Risk data · identity verification · specialty consumer reports
CA registrant: LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL Inc.
Also files: RELX Inc. (dba LexisNexis), separately
Headquarters: Alpharetta, GA
Collects minors' data?: Yes, per its own filing
Collects government ID numbers?: Yes
Collects precise geolocation?: Yes
Your file: Free consumer disclosure report on request
Security freeze: Available under the FCRA
2024 deletions: 12,769 received · 12,692 granted · 1-day median

Background

Three entities, one brand

"LexisNexis" isn't one company, and the difference decides what rights you have. Its own consumer portal spells it out. LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. "is a consumer reporting agency as defined under the Fair Credit Reporting Act", while LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL Inc. "is not a consumer reporting agency and provides various services such as identity verification, fraud prevention, and risk management services".

CA registrant (risk business): LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL Inc.
The FCRA entity: LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. · not separately registered in CA
CA registrant (legal research): RELX Inc., dba LexisNexis
Risk-business address: 1000 Alderman Drive Alpharetta, GA 30005
Legal-research address: 1801 Varsity Dr. Raleigh, NC 27606
Recently absorbed: SageStream, LLC, now part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc.

In practice, the entity holding the data you care about most (your consumer file) is the one that isn't the California registrant. The registrant, LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL Inc., is the non-FCRA side doing identity verification and fraud scoring. Your disclosure report, your dispute rights and your security freeze all run against LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. under federal law instead.

What the company says it does is unusually candid. Its customers "use our products to prevent and investigate fraud, investigate crimes, and keep communities safer", and it names them as "banks and financial institutions, insurance carriers, healthcare providers and government agencies, law enforcement agencies, and non-profits". The data comes "from public record and publicly available data sources" plus "proprietary data and information from third-party data sources".

The two filings behave completely differently, and the numbers are the clearest thing in this profile. LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL Inc. reported 12,769 deletion requests in 2024, granted 12,692 of them in full, denied 77, and did it on a one-day median. That's among the best compliance records in the entire California registry. RELX Inc., the legal-research side, reported 130 deletion requests and denied 100 of them.

One more corporate detail worth knowing before you opt out. SageStream, LLC is now part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc., so a prescreen opt-out here also lands on your SageStream file. SageStream is an alternative-data credit bureau in its own right. That's stated on LexisNexis's own opt-out page.

Write to the wrong entity and you get the wrong answer. The risk business grants nearly every deletion request in a day. The legal-research business denied 77% of the handful it received. They're both "LexisNexis", they file separately with California, and they publish different contact addresses. The guide below routes you to the risk-side consumer portal, which is the one that holds a file on you.

Data Published

Data types

What it holds

LexisNexis publishes nothing you can search yourself, which is exactly why people don't think to check it. What it holds shows up in its own California filing and in the disclosure report it will send you on request.

Personal information of minors: one of the minority of registrants answering yes
Government-issued identification numbers used to verify identity
Precise geolocation
Public-record data: addresses, property, liens, judgments, bankruptcies
Insurance claims history, through the C.L.U.E. consumer reports its FCRA entity produces
Identity-verification and fraud-risk scores derived from the above
Prescreen lists used by creditors and insurers for firm offers of credit and insurance

It sells to law enforcement and government, by its own description. The consumer portal names "government agencies, law enforcement agencies" among its customers and says products are used to "investigate crimes". That's a materially different exposure profile from a people-search site, and it's the reason the personal-safety opt-out below exists as a separate track.

Contact

Contacts & links

From the CPPA filing and the consumer portal

CA registrant: LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL Inc.
Filed address: 1000 Alderman Drive Alpharetta, GA 30005
Filed contact: consumer.documents@lexisnexisrisk.com · (888) 217-1591
Consumer Center (post): LexisNexis Risk Solutions Consumer Center P.O. Box 105108 Atlanta, GA 30348-5108
Consumer Center (phone): (866) 897-8126
Request-form help line: (888) 497-0011
Consumer portal: consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com
Legal-research side: privacy.inquiries@lexisnexis.com · (800) 897-3259

Network

Related sites

Where it sits

LexisNexis belongs with the credit bureaus rather than the people-search sites. Like them it runs an FCRA-regulated consumer-report business alongside data products that sit outside the consumer-report framework, and like them the opt-outs are split across several separate channels rather than one form.

If you're doing the bureaus, do this at the same time. A LexisNexis file feeds insurance underwriting and identity decisions that the Equifax, Experian and TransUnion files don't cover. Freezing all three credit bureaus and leaving LexisNexis open leaves a real gap.

Owned or operated by RELX Inc.2 entities in this network · LexisNexis registrantExplore the full map

Reputation

Trust signals

Filed numbers, not reviews

LexisNexis sells to institutions, and its one consumer review page covers lexisnexis.com as a whole (60 reviews, 1.3 out of 5), not only the risk business this page is about. The signal worth reading is what it told a regulator about its own request handling, and on the risk side that signal is unusually good.

CPPA registry · LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL Inc.12,769 deletions · 12,692 granted in full · 77 denied · 1-day medianStrongAs of 2026-08Download the registry ↗

CPPA registry · RELX Inc. (LexisNexis)130 deletions · 30 granted in full · 100 denied77% deniedAs of 2026-08Download the registry ↗

Trustpilotwww.lexisnexis.com as a whole · 60 reviews · claimed profile1.3 / 5As of 2026-10Check Trustpilot ↗

Litigation

Litigation history

2024 GitHub data exposure

2024 data exposure through a software-development platform

Confirmed incident

LexisNexis Risk Solutions · reported to the Maine Attorney General, May 2025

Data taken: Dec 25, 2024
Company learned of it: Apr 1, 2025
People affected: 364,333, per the Maine filing
Data involved: Name, contact details, Social Security number, driver's licence number or date of birth

An unknown third party took data that LexisNexis Risk Solutions held in GitHub, a third-party platform it used for software development. The company said the incident did not affect its own networks or systems and that no financial or credit card data was involved. It began notifying affected people in May 2025 and offered two years of identity protection and credit monitoring (BleepingComputer).

FAQ

Q & A

Common questions

Does LexisNexis have a file on me?

Probably, if you're a US adult who has held insurance, applied for credit, or appears in public records. You don't have to guess. LexisNexis Risk Solutions will send you a free consumer disclosure report showing what it holds. Requesting it is the first step in our LexisNexis removal guide.

Which LexisNexis do I actually contact?

The risk side, at consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com. That's where the consumer file, the freeze and the opt-outs live. The legal-research business (RELX Inc., lexisnexis.com) files separately with California and denied 100 of the 130 deletion requests it received in 2024. It isn't the one holding a consumer file on you.

Can I delete myself from LexisNexis entirely?

No, and it's worth being straight about that. As an FCRA consumer reporting agency, its consumer-report business is legally entitled to hold your file. What you can do is get a copy, dispute what's wrong, place a security freeze so it can't be released, and opt out of the marketing and prescreen uses that sit outside the consumer-report framework. There's also a separate opt-out if you're facing a threat to your personal safety.

What is a security freeze and should I place one?

A security freeze blocks release of your consumer file. It's the strongest option here. The trade-off is real, though. An insurer or lender that can't pull your file may slow down or decline an application, so a freeze is best placed when you're not about to apply for anything and lifted when you are.

What is SageStream and why does it appear here?

SageStream, LLC is an alternative-data credit bureau, and LexisNexis's own opt-out page states it "is now a part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc." So a prescreen opt-out submitted to LexisNexis also applies to your SageStream file. One request, two bureaus.

Is LexisNexis covered by the FCRA?

Partly, and the split is the whole story. LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. is a consumer reporting agency under the FCRA. LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL Inc. (the entity registered as a data broker in California) says in the company's own words that it's not one, and does identity verification, fraud prevention and risk management instead. Your FCRA rights run against the first; the California Delete Act registration covers the second.

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Last updated August 6, 2026.

Drafted from the California data-broker registry CSV (downloaded and read directly) and LexisNexis's own consumer portal at consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com. ⚠️ No request has been put through this process.

Opt-out last verified August 10, 2026.

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