Telefonica’s Movistar Faces Venezuela Data Leak, NGO Says

A local non-profit reported a massive data leak from Spain’s Telefonica SA subsidiary in Venezuela, Movistar, which exposed the personal data of millions of clients, highlighting the vulnerability of the country’s digital communications.

Names, identity numbers, locations and phone numbers of 3.2 million Movistar clients in Venezuela were published in an online forum, as a self-declared hacker tried to sell the information, according to an analysis of the data by VE Sin Filtro, a Venezuelan non-governmental organization focusing on Internet restrictions, cybersecurity and censorship.