Massive Verizon Security Breach: Change your Pin

If you're a Verizon customer, you need to change your PIN — the personal identification number you use when contacting customer service — right now.

A security firm revealed on Wednesday that information on millions Verizon accounts was exposed on an unsecured server. The information consisted of the subscriber's name, cellphone number, and the account PIN. The last element is obviously the crucial one: With the PIN, an attacker could fool a customer-service representative into giving them access to a subscriber's account.

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Each record included a customer's name, a cell phone number, and their account PIN -- which if obtained would grant anyone access to a subscriber's account, according to a Verizon call center representative, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the press.

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