Hacker used a voice phishing attack to steal Cisco customers’ personal information

Cybercriminal cheated on Cisco’s representative to give them access to steal Cisco.com’s personal information, users, The company said on Tuesday.

Cisco said it discovered the break on July 24, blaming the incident for vocal phishing or “Vishing”. The hackers accessed and exported a “subset of basic profile information” from the database of a third-party cloud-based customer relationship (CRM) system, according to the company’s dissemination.

Cisco said the stolen data includes the “client’s” name, organizational name, address, Cisco assigned using an identifier, email address, phone number and account-related metadata, “such as the date of creating an account.

The giant for online Techniko did not specify how many cisco.com users were hit by the break. When Email, a spokesman for Cisco Carro Halpin would not say.

As Bleeping Computer notedThis break could be different in a string of attacks that aimed at the data on poisoning companies, including American insurance giant Allianz LifeLuxury businessman Tiffany and Co., Australian airline Qantasand others.

Cisco is a well -known customer of Salesforce, according to to the cloud giant.

This story has been updated to include a response from Cisco.