Security News > 2022 > November > Vodafone Italy discloses data breach after reseller hacked
Vodafone Italia is sending customers notices of a data breach, informing that one of its commercial partners, FourB S.p.
Vodafone Italia urges the recipients of the notifications to remain vigilant against incoming communications, as the risk of being targeted by phishing actors and scammers has now increased.
BleepingComputer has reached out to both Vodafone Italia and FourB S.p.
KelvinSecurity offered to sell a collection of 295,000 files totaling 310 GB of data they allegedly stole from Vodafone Italia and advertised the cache on messaging platforms and at least one hacker forum.
KelvinSecurity is an experienced data seller that may also sell initial access to other hackers.
In June 2020, they bartered the data of Frost & Sullivan employees on hacking forums after breaching a backup server.
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