Personal data on more than 14 million Verizon customers have been reportedly exposed in an incident that highlights the importance of moving data protection practices to the cloud.
The security lapse, first reported on ZDNet and discovered by research firm UpGuard, involved technology supplier Nice Systems, which left Verizon customer data unprotected on an Amazon Web Services S3 storage instance. The data contained names, phone numbers and PINs that could be used to access their Verizon accounts.
