Alert: Phishing Attack Exposes 4,000 Comcast Customers
Posted 03-17-2009 at 01:54 PM by Chris Monty
Just a public service announcement this time.
If you are a customer of Comcast’s internet service, you might just want to go change your password.
It looks like a phishing attack left the usernames and passwords of about 4,000 Comcast customers exposed on the web - for more than two months.
The breech was discovered when Kevin Andreyo, an technology specialist in Pennsylvania and professor at Wilkes University, stumbles upon the huge list Monday on Scribd, a document-sharing Web site.
Andreyo had been looking over a PC World piece called “People Search Engines: They Know Your Dark Secrets… And Tell Anyone,” when he decided he would try to find out what information about him could be found online.
He used the people search engine Pipl and found 4 results, one of which was the list on Scribd.
The list also included his password. Scribd’s tracking system showed that the database
had been seen...
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Comcast: Gone Phishing
If you are a customer of Comcast’s internet service, you might just want to go change your password.
It looks like a phishing attack left the usernames and passwords of about 4,000 Comcast customers exposed on the web - for more than two months.
The breech was discovered when Kevin Andreyo, an technology specialist in Pennsylvania and professor at Wilkes University, stumbles upon the huge list Monday on Scribd, a document-sharing Web site.
Andreyo had been looking over a PC World piece called “People Search Engines: They Know Your Dark Secrets… And Tell Anyone,” when he decided he would try to find out what information about him could be found online.
He used the people search engine Pipl and found 4 results, one of which was the list on Scribd.
The list also included his password. Scribd’s tracking system showed that the database
had been seen...
Continue Reading...
Comcast: Gone Phishing
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