Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: a hacker has obtained a database that includes the full name, email address, corporate ID numbers, and phone number of hundreds of Verizon employees. …. The hacker contacted Motherboard last week to part the information. The anonymous hacker said they obtained the data by convincing a Verizon employee to pay them remote access to their corporate computer. At that head the hacker said they gained access to a Verizon internal tool that shows employees information, and wrote a script to query and scrape the database. scan more at Vice.