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Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco

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Ars Technica

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A Cisco representative was targeted in a voice phishing attack, leading to the exposure of profile information from a third-party customer relationship management system. The compromised data included basic account details like names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers of Cisco.com users. Fortunately, sensitive information like passwords was not exposed, and there was no evidence of other CRM instances being affected. Cisco reassured that its products and services were not compromised in the breach.

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