Verizon Suffers Cloud Data Leak Exposing Data on Millions of Customers
Dark Reading | July 12, 2017
Verizon Communications suffered a major data leak due to a misconfigured cloud server that exposed data on 6 million of its customers. The leak was the result of its third-party provider NICE Systems incorrectly configuring Verizon's cloud-based file repository housed in an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket on NICE's cloud server, according to UpGuard, which issued a report on the breach today. Verizon customer names, addresses, account information, including account personal identification numbers (PINs), were compromised.