About 63,000 Verizon employees have been affected by a breach that occurred in September 2023 but which wasn't discovered for three months.
The exposed information includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers, gender, union affiliations, dates of birth, and compensation information - basically a phisher's social engineering giftbox.
Verizon - which offers consumer wireless, home Internet, IT consulting, business communications, cybersecurity offerings, and much more - did not immediately respond to Dark Reading's request for more details on the breach.
The service provider said it was reviewing its technical controls to prevent a repeat of the situation down the line, but Jim Alkove, co-founder and CEO of identity security startup Oleria and former chief trust officer at Salesforce.com, believes that it's equally important to be mindful of security mindset.
The news comes amid ongoing cyberattacks against telecom providers; it's also Verizon's second data breach incident in less than a year.
Last March, 7.5 million wireless customers were affected when their information cropped up for sale on the Dark Web; the provider said a third-party provider was to blame.
This Cyber News was published on www.darkreading.com. Publication date: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:45:27 +0000