Millions of Verizon customers have had their records exposed, ZDNet reported earlier today. Verizon confirmed that 6 million records were compromised by Nice Systems, a Verizon partner that facilitates customer service calls. The records, which held logs from residential customers who had called Verizon customer service in the past six months, were accessed via an unprotected Amazon S3 storage server controlled by an employee of Nice Systems.

CNN reports that the cause was a misconfigured security setting on the server. As a result, anyone who knew the web address could download the files. But Verizon says no other external party had access to the data, telling CNN that no loss or theft of customer information occurred.

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