Public Knowledge Wants FCC to Probe Exposure of Verizon Customer Records
Public Knowledge is asking the FCC to investigate the exposure of millions of Verizon customer records in a cloud server, discovered last month by a security researcher. PK Policy Fellow Yosef Getachew said Verizon failed to protect its customers' privacy,…
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and also to notify them of the exposure. "The FCC is well within its authority to investigate Verizon’s data security breach and take appropriate enforcement action," he said. Neither the FCC nor a Verizon spokesman Thursday commented on PK's request for a probe. The Verizon spokesman said the investigation is ongoing and the company is working with the vendor "to make sure this never happens again." In a Wednesday news release, the telco said records of 6 million unique customers -- not 14 million as cybersecurity firm UpGuard initially blogged -- were exposed. "The overwhelming majority of information ... had no external value" and no Social Security numbers or Verizon voice recordings were exposed, said Verizon. There was "no loss or theft" of customer data, it added. UpGuard blogged Wednesday that its researcher Chris Vickery discovered the breach June 8 of the cloud server owned by Israel-based Nice Systems.