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“Verizon recently discovered and remediated a security vulnerability on our enterprise client portal. Our investigation to date found an attacker obtained basic contact information on a number of our enterprise customers. No customer proprietary network information (CPNI) or other data was accessed or accessible.”The company did not disclose how many customers were impacted in the breach but said affected clients would be notified. “The irony in this breach is that Verizon Enterprise is typically the one telling the rest of the world how these sorts of breaches take place,” wrote Krebs. “It’s a fair bet that if cyber thieves buy all or some of the Verizon Enterprise customer database, some of these customers may be easy marks for phishing and other targeted attacks,” he said. Verizon Enterprise claims to serve 97 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. “Even if it is limited to the contact data for technical managers at companies that use Verizon Enterprise Solutions, this is bound to be a target-rich list,” warned Krebs.