After Comcast was subject to a data leak and hundreds of thousands of user accounts were supposedly stolen and put up for sale on the dark Web, the company has resorted to resetting all passwords associated with the active accounts.
Comcast has announced that the break was not due to a breach
About 600,000 Comcast customer credentials were reportedly stolen in this data leak, and 200,000 were confirmed to have been taken. Hackers demanded $1,000 for the data. Comcast has since then announced that the break was not due to a breach of its system but rather an isolated incident due to customers visiting websites with malware or were victims of phishing, which must have given hackers access to their Comcast accounts.
Wake up call to large corporations like TalkTalk and Comcast
A long list of large companies have suffered security breaches in the latter part of 2015, and Comcast is joining that list. There’s no telling if these hackers are targeting the companies or individual users, but fact remains that cyber attacks are becoming more common. This is a good wake up call to large corporations like TalkTalk and Comcast to update their online security, since outdated security measures may underestimate the power the internet brings today.
This should even be extended to government agencies all over the world: the Internet cannot be taken lightly.
