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Verizon wasn’t hacked, but change your PIN right now!
Chris Smith
@chris_writes
July 13th, 2017 at 6:50 AM
Verizon wasn’t hacked, but customers who used the company’s customer support service in the past six months should take action to protect their accounts, as personal data may have been accessed by hackers.
The leak was discovered on June 8th by UpGuard, who disclosed it to Verizon five days later. On June 22nd the issue was fixed.
What happened was that a cloud server operated by Nice Systems was misconfigured, exposing personal data of millions of Verizon customers. That includes various details including names, street and email addresses, phone numbers, and PINs. That’s right, a hacker with this amount of info could easily wreak havoc into Verizon account, including messing with two-factor authentication. If you recycle that PIN for other uses, those accounts might be at risk as well.
http://bgr.com/2017/07/13/verizon-hack-data-breach-pin-change/
Chris Smith
@chris_writesJuly 13th, 2017 at 6:50 AM
Verizon wasn’t hacked, but customers who used the company’s customer support service in the past six months should take action to protect their accounts, as personal data may have been accessed by hackers.
The leak was discovered on June 8th by UpGuard, who disclosed it to Verizon five days later. On June 22nd the issue was fixed.
What happened was that a cloud server operated by Nice Systems was misconfigured, exposing personal data of millions of Verizon customers. That includes various details including names, street and email addresses, phone numbers, and PINs. That’s right, a hacker with this amount of info could easily wreak havoc into Verizon account, including messing with two-factor authentication. If you recycle that PIN for other uses, those accounts might be at risk as well.
http://bgr.com/2017/07/13/verizon-hack-data-breach-pin-change/
