Hacker Gained Access to Verizon Employee Database by Tricking a Company Worker
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A hacker obtained a database that includes the full names, email addresses, corporate ID numbers, and phone numbers of hundreds of Verizon employees.
The anonymous hacker said they obtained the data by convincing a Verizon employee to give them remote access to their corporate computer. At that point, the hacker said they gained access to a Verizon internal tool that showed employees’ information and wrote a script to query and scrape the database.
The hacker said they reached out to Verizon and sent an email saying, “Please feel free to respond with an offer not to leak you’re [sic] entire employee database.” Verizon called the hacker a fraudster and said, “We do not believe the fraudster has any sensitive information, and we do not plan to engage with the individual further.” (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard)
Related: DataBreaches.net, Slashdot
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