"Verizon Breach: 6 Million Customer Accounts Exposed"

Verizon has faced a massive breach as 6 million customer accounts have been exposed. Data that has been exposed include names, addresses, phone numbers, customer PIN codes, and more. Researcher from the cyber risk team at UpGuard, Chris Vickery, discovered the exposure of data, which was stored within an unsecure Amazon Web Services Simple Storage (S3) bucket managed by one of Verizon’s partners, NICE Systems. This article further discusses the details of this breach in regards to how Verizon has responded, how this breach occurred and was discovered, the importance of ensuring that services are securely configured, along with how the compromised data could possibly be used by scammers.  

InfoRiskToday reports "Verizon Breach: 6 Million Customer Accounts Exposed"