Verizon’s Data Breach Fighter Gets Hit With, Well, a Data Breach

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http://fortune.com/2016/03/24/verizon-enterprise-data-breach/

Verizon’s Data Breach Fighter Gets Hit With, Well, a Data Breach
by Robert Hackett
March 24, 2016, 7:15 PM EDT

Verizon’s division that helps Fortune 500 companies respond to data breaches, has suffered a data breach of its own.

Customer contact information supposedly stolen from Verizon’s enterprise unit appeared online earlier this week, reports Brian Krebs, an independent cybersecurity journalist. He happened upon the cache while trawling the web.

During his search, Krebs noticed that “a prominent member of a closely guarded underground cybercrime forum posted a new thread advertising the sale of a database containing the contact information on some 1.5 million customers of Verizon Enterprise,” as he writes on his site, KrebsOnSecurity.

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Whoever posted the notice set the total price at $100,000—or alternatively at $10,000 per batch of 100,000 records, Krebs reports. The seller also offered up information about vulnerabilities affecting the company’s website for money.

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I worked for the assholes for over twenty years. Everything's done cheaply as possible as quick as possible to keep productivity up (squeeze as much out of your people) so the execs can collect their bonuses.