13.07.2017 - 14:25 [ Techdirt ]

Private Data Of 6 Million Verizon Users Left Openly Accessible On The Internet

Yet another company has been caught leaving personal customer data just sitting on an openly-accessible server for anybody to obtain and abuse. According to Upguard and security researcher Chris Vickery, the data was being stored by Nice Systems, a Ra‘anana, Israel-based company employed by Verizon to store and analyze the data for an „unknown purpose.“