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A cybercriminal tricked a Cisco representative into granting them access to steal the personal information of Cisco.com users, the company said on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cisco said it discovered the breach on July 24, blaming the incident on a voice phishing or \u201cvishing\u201d call. The hackers accessed and exported \u201ca subset of basic profile information\u201d from the database of a third party cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) system, according to the company\u2019s disclosure.\u00a0<\/p>\n Cisco said that the stolen data included the customer\u2019s \u201cname, organization name, address, Cisco assigned user ID, email address, phone number, and account-related metadata,\u201d such as the account creation date.\u00a0<\/p>\n The networking tech giant did not specify how many Cisco.com users were affected by the breach. When reached by email, Cisco spokesperson Carro Halpin would not say.<\/p>\n As Bleeping Computer noted<\/a>, this breach could be another one in a string of attacks that targeted companies\u2019 Salesforce data, including U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life<\/a>, luxury retailer Tiffany and Co., Australian airline Qantas<\/a>, and others.\u00a0<\/p>\n Cisco is a known customer of Salesforce, according to the cloud giant<\/a>.<\/p>\n