Cloud Leak: Verizon Customer Data Exposed by Vendor
By Jill Leovy
Names, phone numbers and other information of millions of customers of Verizon were made available on a publicly accessible storage area owned by one of the company's vendors, according an enterprise se- curity software company that discovered the exposed data.
The data repository "was totally publicly accessible, anyone entering a URL in a browser would have been able to access it," said Dan O'Sullivan, cyber-resilience analyst with UpGuard, the Mountain View, Calif. company that found the data.