Customer Records for Millions of Verizon Wireless Subscribers Exposed
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It’s a day ending in the letter “Y,” so we’re not surprised that yet another breach of customer information is making the news: In the latest, a cyber security firm says information for at least 14 million Verizon Wireless customers was found on an unsecured web server, allowing anyone on the Internet to access it. Verizon says that figure was closer to six million customer records.
Israeli technology firm UpGuard says its cyber security team found a misconfigured cloud-based file repository containing the names, addresses, account details, and account personal identification numbers of millions of Verizon Wireless customers.
The firm came to this number after analyzing the average number of accounts exposed per day in the sample that was downloaded.
The data dump—on a publicly accessible AWS S3 bucket owned and operated by a third-party software and data company called NICE systems—appears to have been created to track customer call data for “unknown purposes,” UpGuard says.
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