Verizon Enterprise Solutions is a wing of Verizon that offer IT service to big business and government activity , often including IT certificate and incident reaction . So it ’s rather embarrassing that a cyber-terrorist is offering to sell a database with the data of 1.5 million Verizon Enterprise clients .
According to KrebsOnSecurity , a “ large appendage of a closely guarded underground cybercrime forum ” offered a database up for sales agreement before this hebdomad . For $ 100,000 , the buyer would receive contact information for 1.5 million customers .
In response to the report , a Verizon Enterprise spokesperson read that the company had “ lately identified a surety flaw in its website that permitted hackers to slip client contact information , and that it is in the process of alerting touched client . ”
There ’s no cause for fear if you ’re a Verizon Wireless consumer , but that list could be a gold mine for more targeted blast . Verizon Enterprise Solutions heel a who’s - who of Fortune 500 companies and government soundbox as its clients ; aim phishing attacks to even a small fraction of those contacts could prove insanely lucrative . Most of all , it ’s a remind that no - one — even a top security measure firm — is resistant from simple hacks .
[ Krebs On Security ]
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