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Verizon Data of 6 Million Users Leaked Online

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Verizon confirmed on Wednesday the personal data of 6 million customers has leaked online.
The security issue, uncovered by research from cybersecurity firm UpGuard, was caused by a misconfigured security setting on a cloud server due to "human error."
The error made customer phone numbers, names, and some PIN codes publicly available online. PIN codes are used to confirm the identity of people who call for customer service.

Chris Vickery, a researcher at UpGuard, discovered the Verizon data was exposed by NICE Systems, an Israel-based company Verizon was working with to facilitate customer service calls. The data was collected over the last six months.

Verizon data of 6 million users leaked online - Jul. 12, 2017
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Most of our telecommunications companies contract through Israeli companies, many of which have ties to the Israeli government. We're dependent on Israeli companies for most of the actual applications for telecom. Some Israeli telecom companies have even been implicated in helping terrorism suspects evade wiretapping in the USA, and supplying Israeli intelligence with details about American law enforcement and American citizens. Plus, these Israeli companies provide data on Americans to the NSA.

It's a problem that's needed addressing for years now, but unfortunately most Americans are more interested in covfefe and nothing burgers.
 
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The ineptitude of IT at large corporations is vast.
 
Lets me guess..Russians?
 
truthatallcost said:
Most of our telecommunications companies contract through Israeli companies, many of which have ties to the Israeli government. We're dependent on Israeli companies for most of the actual applications for telecom. Some Israeli telecom companies have even been implicated in helping terrorism suspects evade wiretapping in the USA, and supplying Israeli intelligence with details about American law enforcement and American citizens. Plus, these Israeli companies provide data on Americans to the NSA.

It's a problem that's needed addressing for years now, but unfortunately most Americans are more interested in covfefe and nothing burgers.
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I have Verizon. Where was the data leaked? I forgot my pin code.
 
good thing I'm on a prepaid plan paid for with verizon prepaid calling cards
 
The incident stemmed from NICE security measures that were not set up properly. The company made a security setting public, instead of private, on an Amazon S3 storage server -- a common technology used by businesses to keep data in the cloud. This means Verizon data stored in the cloud was temporarily visible to anyone who had the public link.


Are you ****ing kidding me? And this is coming from a nation that is known to be in the top echelon of technology. Pathetic.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
No, Israelis, you clearly didn't read this very educated and very well documented post by OP
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Yeah.....pretty funny isn't it.
I'm not minimizing any data breach, but in the pantheon of cyber-crime, this isn't even on the radar.

The 9 Biggest Data Breaches Of All Time | HuffPost

That list is from 2015 so I'm sure even larger hacks have occurred.
I really liked the way the OP used this relatively minor data breach as an excuse to bash the Israelis.
He should have just come right out and said.....

"You can't trust the joos".

Much more honest, I'd say.
 
ajn678 said:
The incident stemmed from NICE security measures that were not set up properly. The company made a security setting public, instead of private, on an Amazon S3 storage server -- a common technology used by businesses to keep data in the cloud. This means Verizon data stored in the cloud was temporarily visible to anyone who had the public link.


Are you ****ing kidding me? And this is coming from a nation that is known to be in the top echelon of technology. Pathetic.
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The nation may be, but the company is amateur hour.
 
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