A hacker posts 300,000 customer records from an alleged Verizon Wireless hack, but the company says it's old news.

So, wait, was Verizon Wireless hacked or wasn't it? And what happened to the information?

These are all the big questions surrounding yesterday's announcement by a hacker who goes by the name TibitXimer.

On Twitter, said user proclaimed that he (or she) hacked into Verizon and gained access to a database of customers' names, addresses, account passwords, mobile serial numbers, and other data. TibitXimer allegedly downloaded 3 million of these records, split by the various regions customers live in, and reported the security hole to Verizon.

One important bit: This entire process allegedly happened months ago. The timing's important, because TibitXimer claims that Verizon ignored the report and continued to leave the means by which said hacker accessed the users' information wide open. As a result, TibitXimer leaked approximately 300,000 of these customer records by uploading them to Pastebin yesterday.

At least, that's his (or her) side of the story. The Pastebin file  as well as TibitXimer's Twitter account  have been taken offline, and Verizon claims that its Verizon Wireless systems are completely secure at the moment. TibitXimer has allegedly gone on to modify the story to say that the data acquired actually comes from Verizon FiOS customers, not Verizon Wireless customers.

"We reported this incident to the authorities when we first learned of it months ago and an investigation was launched. Many of the details surrounding this incident are incorrect and exaggerated. No Verizon systems were breached, no root access was gained, and this incident impacted a fraction of the number of individuals being reported," said Verizon in a statement to ZDNet, the initial source of the "inaccurate" news about the hack, Verizon said.

"Nonetheless, we notified individuals who could potentially have been impacted and took immediate steps to safeguard their information and privacy. Verizon has also notified the FBI of this recent report as a follow-up to the original case."

According to a follow-up chat with Verizon representatives by VentureBeat, the company claimed that none of its systems were breached and, instead, the information was accessed by way of a "third-party marketer."

Security researcher Adam Caudill, as reported by PCWorld, appears to confirm Verizon's claim by suggesting that the PasteBin-posted customer records are identical to a set that was already released months ago.

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