Verizon Wireless vendor screws up… Millions of customer data left in open public cloud access. So glad I switched carriers – PB/TK
Verizon Wireless customer information exposed in data breach – By Matthew Wisner / July 13 2017
A huge data leak at Verizon Wireless exposed millions of customer records, but the company blamed an outside vendor for the breach. The FOX Business Network’s Tracee Carrasco reported, “Names, addresses, phone numbers and, in some cases, the security pins of millions of Verizon customers publicly exposed online by one of the company’s vendors, Nice systems, based in Israel.”
Verizon Wireless was informed of the breach, which was discovered by a researcher from software security firm UpGuard, in late June.
According to reports from ZDNet.com, “An employee of Nice Systems put information into a storage cloud area and incorrectly set the storage to allow external access,” said Carrasco
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