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Verizon Wireless recently shared a data breach notification with the Office of the Maine Attorney General. According to the document, an employee of the wireless carrier gained entry to an unauthorized file which contained sensitive information on other employees. The insider data breach was access on September 21, 2023.
As shared with BleepingComputer, the data breach exposed sensitive employee information of almost half of Verizon’s workforce. In 2022, the company reported having over 117,000 employees. When Verizon discovered the breach on December 12, 2023, they learned that the sensitive information of 63,206 employees were accessed. This included the following information:
Full name
Physical address
Social Security number (SSN)
National ID
Gender
Union affiliation
Date of birth
Compensation information
Since its discovery, Verizon has worked with its internal security to make sure similar incidents can be prevented in the future. There is also no sign of malicious exploitation that the breached data was leaked online. In its data breach notification, Verizon shares:
"At this time, we have no evidence that this information has been misused or shared outside of Verizon as a result of this issue. We are working to ensure our technical controls are enhanced to help prevent this type of situation from reoccurring and are notifying applicable regulators about the matter."
Verizon has taken measures to safeguard exposed individuals in the recent security incident. It has sent out instructions to enroll affected employees in a two-year identity theft protection and credit monitoring program.
Again, this data breach only affected select employees of Verizon, not its customers.
Source: BleepingComputer
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