IT giant Cisco, which makes networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment, recently faced a major data breach, the company disclosed on Friday.
A Cisco representative fell victim to a voice phishing or “vishing” attack, when a caller pretends to be a legitimate individual or organization, and tricked the employee over the phone to obtain the personal information of Cisco.com users.
The bad actor was able to access and export a subsection of profile information from Cisco’s cloud customer management system. They stole data from individuals who had registered for a Cisco.com account,