Cisco hit by voice phishing, website user data stolen
Cisco was hit by a voice phishing attack, and user information was stolen from its customer relationship management system. The leaked data included profile information of users registered on Cisco.com. Cisco disclosed the data breach affecting user accounts.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Cisco
- Incident type
- Phishing & smishing
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Profile information of users registered on Cisco.com
- Cause / method
- Compromise of the customer relationship management system via voice phishing
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- Cisco disclosed a leak of Cisco.com user data resulting from a compromise of its customer relationship management system.
- It emerged that the customer data leak was linked to a voice phishing attack.
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