More than 3.2 million Movistar users would be affected after confirming a serious data filtration, the VSINFILTRO NGO reported.
In its social networks, the NGO specialized in digital issues, peeled that they still cannot assess whether the data were obtained directly from Movistar, or from another source. “Among the leaked data are found, names, geographical area, and telephone numbers.”
“The filtration was announced on April 27, after an anonymous user offered a database of user supposedly extracted from Movistar Venezuela in exchange for money in a forum known for the sale and unauthorized dissemination of data,” said the organization.
Severe filtration of personal data in Movistar
Obtaining and publication of these data is a crime. It violates the rights to privacy and puts at risk of identity theft, impersonation, fraud, and spam to the affected users, sentenced in his X account. There he also demanded @Movistarve to report transparently about what happened, notify the affected users and share the measures they are taking.
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In X several users pronounced demanding the operator greater transparency. “I demand @Movistarve @Movistar to respond and repair for the damage caused. Notify the affected users. They are very good by uploading the rates of plans and ending the data at one time, the user Flavia Herrera sentenced
First Digitel and now Movistar. The level of security that these companies have here in the country are useless, Yousy Landaeta said
To continue crouching your head, if it were in a normal country, it is possible to demand. @bostonrex pd: fly calls you Maria, the user David Díaz complained
