#Fail: Verizon Suffers Data Breach…. Data From 14 Million Customers Exposed
US cellphone carrier Verizon has one hell of a data breach on its hands. A security firm by the name of UpGuard found out about this security blunder which involved technology supplier Nice Systems who left Verizon customer data unprotected on an Amazon Web Services S3 storage instance. This data was publicly accessible to anyone who had the “easy-to-guess” URL, the security firm said. The data in question included names, phone numbers and PINs that could be used to access customers Verizon accounts. The number of customers potentially affected totaled 14 million.
#fail
Verizon has admitted to the breach, but has downplayed the potential damage that could have been caused. Still this highlights what could happen when a company loses control of your personal information.
UPDATE: Clearly Verizon is touchy about this because I got this via Twitter no less than 5 minutes after posting this story:
July 21, 2017 at 9:23 am
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July 23, 2017 at 1:20 pm
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