About 32,000 customers of database company LexisNexis have lost their logins forcing federal lawmakers to call for tougher ruling on companies’ data access.

Computer thieves now have access to data of the company’s customers using stolen passwords.

LexisNexis is a database company owned by the Anglo-Dutch publishing company Reed Elsevier Group PLC. Last year, it bought Seisint Inc. of Boca Raton for $775 million.

LexisNexis found out recently that the data were occupied by an unauthorized person that used the customer’s account. ’’It appears the login of a LexisNexis customer was stolen and used to gain access to records containing personal data on individuals," said spokesman for the company.

’’LexisNexis sincerely regrets these circumstances and continues to work aggressively and expeditiously to minimize the impact of these incidents to consumers and our customers," said LexisNexis’s CEO and president Kurt Sanford in a videotaped apology for the security breach posted the website of the company.