Verizon Wireless announced Thursday it had won an injunction in court to prevent a Tennessee company from continuing “theft of subscriber information.”

Earlier this summer, Verizon Wireless sued Cookeville, Tenn.-based Source Resources Inc., in New Jersey State Superior Court in Somerset County, N.J., seeking among other things an injunction barring Source Resources from acquiring, possessing or selling confidential Verizon Wireless customer account information without a valid court order or the customer’s express consent.

Superior Court Judge Harriet Derman ordered a permanent injunction against Source Resources Tuesday as part of a settlement between Verizon Wireless and the company. Source Resources also agreed to cooperate with Verizon Wireless by surrendering records of its transactions and information about how it previously obtained customer records.

“Accessing a person’s personal telephone records without a valid court order or the customer’s permission is illegal,” said Steven Zipperstein, General Counsel and Vice President of Legal and External Affairs at Verizon Wireless. “Verizon Wireless will protect our customers against these kinds of assaults on their privacy, and we will use every weapon in our legal arsenal to shut down identity-theft operations.”

The lawsuit was filed by Verizon Wireless July 8th against Source Resources, which advertised on its Internet site the capability to secure confidential wireless telephone records for a fee. Verizon Wireless brought the lawsuit after one of its customers reported that his confidential wireless phone records had been secured without his permission by Source Resources.

In the scheme, Source Records representatives would call Verizon Wireless customer care representatives, pretending to be the customer in question, and request the release of personal data and telephone records.

“Verizon Wireless will absolutely go to the mat to protect our customer’s rights,” said Verizon Wireless spokesman Jeffrey Nelson.