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The
company said the attacker however did not gain access to
Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) or other data.
CPNI is the information that telephone companies collect
including the time, date, duration and destination number of
each call and the type of network a consumer subscribes to.
Krebs On Security, which first broke the news of the breach,
said a member of a underground cybercrime forum had posted a new
thread advertising the sale of a database containing the contact
information on some 1.5 million customers of Verizon Enterprise.
The seller priced the entire package at $100,000, but offered to
sell it off in parts of 100,000 records for $10,000 apiece,
Krebs added. (http://bit.ly/1S9C6Kc)
The vulnerability, which was investigated and fixed, did not
leak any data on consumer customers, Verizon said in a statement
on Thursday.
The company is currently notifying customers impacted by the
breach.
(Reporting by Amrutha Penumudi in Bengaluru; Editing by Diane
Craft and Cynthia Osterman)
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