Cisco Sounds Data Violence Due to Fishing Attack

by SkillAiNest

IT Goshal Cisco, which makes networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment, recently encountered a major data violation, company Revealed on Friday.

A Sisco representative said that the victim was a victim of a “vicious” attack, when a caller pretends to be a legitimate individual or organization, and cheats the employee over the phone to get personal information from Cisco.com users.

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Bad actor Cisco was able to access and export a sub -section of profile information from Cisco’s cloud customer management system. They stole data from individuals who registered for the Cisco.com account, including customer names, organization names, addresses, email addresses and phone numbers.

Cisco found out on July 24 of the violation. The company said the data violation did not affect the password nor affect any of its products or services. He added that he notified the affected users where the law was required and spoke to the data protection officials.

“We are pursuing more security measures to reduce the risk of similar events in the future, including re -education on potential helping attacks and re -education,” Cisco said.

Cisco refuses to provide details of the violation TakkarchHow many users were affected, including. The company has More than 300,000 The global consumer was Cisco A Market price At the time of writing, 8 268 billion, with its stock annually, is more than 14 %.

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Sisco Uses sales force To handle customer relationship data, and this incident was one of the recent attacks that affected sales force users. For example, US Insurance Company Elijan Life Exposed the violation of the data Last month, which exposed the personally identified information of the majority of its 1.4 million users, including addresses, date of birth, and number of social protection.

The company’s two users, Sheryl Marota and David Werner filed a Class of Class Action Regarding the violation on Tuesday, it was alleged that Alianz had failed to protect his personal information because the data was uncommon and was saved in a database.

Another company, Australian Airline Dev Kantas also Data violated On June 30, which affected the personal information of more than six million users. The bad actor called a company’s call centers and used the call to steal information such as name, phone numbers, and date birth.

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