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MisuseTelecom & MediaInformationPrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.

bd_14288f881a8c3e8a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Feb 5, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

78%
Full breach record for VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.7 incidents on file

On or around September 21, 2023, a Verizon Communications Inc. employee obtained a file containing employee personal information without authorization and in violation of company policy. The file may have included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, gender, union affiliation, dates of birth, and compensation information. Verizon notified affected employees and offered two years of complimentary identity protection and credit monitoring through Allstate Identity Protection.

Incident timeline

Sep 21, 2023

Begins

Feb 5, 2024

Filed

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filingsup to 4d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 8 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Feb 1 (IL), last Feb 9 (NH) — a 8-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.