Sometimes it seems like no one ’s keeping your data good ; this is one of those sentence . A hackerjust leaked 300,000 Verizon client records , and that ’s only a sample of the 3 million he claims to have get in his footling raid .
The hacker , who goes by TibitXimer , told ZDNet about his exploits this eventide , despite claiming to have actually executed the attack way back on July 12 . TibitXimer say he ’d admonish Verizon of the feat he used , but they did n’t take any natural process , so he did and snagged around 3 percent of Verizon ’s land - wide customer data .
Will this eventually convince everyone to block up storing sensitive information in unembellished text ? suspire with me again . Probably not . [ ZDNet ]
Update : Verizon denies that a leak occurred and said the pursuit in an emailed command :
“ The ZDNet chronicle is inaccurate . We take any attempts to break consumer and client privacy and security very in earnest . This incident was reported to the authority when we first learned of it months ago and an investigating was set up . Many of the detail surrounding this incident are wrong and overdone . No Verizon system of rules were transgress , no rootage access was gain , and this incident impacted a fraction of the bit of person being reported . Nonetheless , we notified individuals who could potentially have been impacted and took immediate steps to safeguard their information and privateness . Verizon has also send word law enforcement of this late report as a follow - up to the original case . ”
Update 2 : Verizon hasexplained to The Next Webthat the data actually came from a third party marketing firm :
There was no hack , and no access gain . A third political party selling house made a misunderstanding and information was copied . As for receiving set v. wired customer , some of the mortal list were Verizon customers who are not wireless customers but wire / wireline customer or prospective customers .
So Verizon ’s servers remained secure , but there is real data out there thanks to someone else ’s fault . Where it add up from or how Tibitximer ( whose Twitter history is now suspended ) came across it is still anyone ’s guess .
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