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2016 — Cisco: Cisco’s investigation found this to be the result…

2016 Unknown records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Personal information

Technical writeup

Cisco’s investigation found this to be the result of an incorrect security settingfollowing system maintenance. The issue was immediately fixed and passwords  to  the  site  have  been  disabled.  Because Cisco  takes  its  responsibility  to protect information seriously, and since many people use the same passwords on multiple websites, we wanted to alert you to this incident.As a precaution, users of Cisco’s Professional Careers Website will need to reset their passwords at their next login b

Root cause

Unintended disclosure

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