Cisco suffers data breach: How hackers used ‘voice attack’ to steal user information

Cisco has disclosed a recent data breach, revealing that a cybercriminal successfully tricked a company representative into granting access to a third-party database. The attack, identified as a voice phishing or “vishing” scheme, led to the theft of basic profile information for users registered on Cisco.com. The networking giant stated that the hackers accessed and exported a subset of user data, though the company did not specify the number of people affected.