After claiming Verizon attack, hacker and the spoils disappear

Hours after boasting about the theft of 3 million records from Verizon Wireless, the hacker claiming responsibility for the attack and the purloined data posted to Pastebin have disappeared from the Web.

A search for the hacker's Twitter handle, @TibitXimer, produced a "Sorry, that page doesn't exist!" message.

Meanwhile, the data claimed to belong to Verizon Wireless appears to have been removed from Pastebin, a popular site for hackers to post stolen data.

Verizon Wireless is denying that the file that was posted to the Internet contained information from its customers. "We have examined the posted data and we have confirmed that it is not Verizon Wireless customer data," Verizon spokesperson Alberto Canal told ZDNet. "Our systems have not been hacked."

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