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Confidence MediumAug 8, 2025cisco.com

Cisco Data Breach via Vishing Attack on Third-Party CRM

PatternExternal actor · Social · Confidentiality impact

Cisco confirmed a data breach following a voice phishing (vishing) attack that tricked an employee and led to unauthorized access to a third-party cloud-based CRM system. The attacker stole basic profile information of users registered on Cisco.com, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, user IDs, and organization details. No sensitive data, passwords, or confidential customer information was compromised.

Signal date
Aug 8, 2025
Updated
Jun 26, 2026
Confidence
Medium
Sources
1 source

Signal context

First seen: Aug 8, 2025

Last updated: Jun 26, 2026

Status: Public signal

Key points

  • Breach caused by a vishing attack targeting an employee.
  • Unauthorized access gained to a third-party cloud-based CRM system.
  • Stolen data includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, user IDs, and organization details.

Signal analysis

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Affected organization
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Likely country: Location not provided

Threat source
Social, Hacking activity

The feed marks multiple actor roles. Treat this as a review signal rather than a final attribution.

  • Source type: outside the affected organization
  • Source type: possible insider or internal misuse
Business impact
Potential fraud or account takeover risk

Impact area: Confidentiality

Likely asset: User or customer data, Server or cloud data store

Trend context
72 signals with similar action pattern
  • 1 signal in the same sector
  • 90 signals with the same likely impact area
  • 1 signal linked to this organization/domain
Mentioned entities
CiscoData DisclosureVishing AttackThird-Party CRM CiscoCRMIDsUnauthorizedStolen

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