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8, 000 Comcast Passwords Exposed, Phishing Scam Suspected
From: "V." <veedot () earthlink net>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:34:54 -0500
8,000 Comcast Passwords Exposed, Phishing Scam Suspected Mon Mar 16 2009The New York Times has reported that a list of over 8,000 Comcast user name and passwords were available to the public via Scribd for two months, before a Wilkes University professor discovered it over the weekend after doing a search for his identity online. Comcast is saying it looks like the result of a phishing scam and isn't an inside job, and that there are so many duplicate entries on the list that it's closer to 4,000 customers.
The man who discovered it, Kevin Andreyo, deserves a slap on the back for using the power of the web to track down personal information about himselfÂhe used <http://www.pipl.com/>pipl to perform a search on his name and addressÂand he deserves a slap somewhere else for using the same password on every account.
<snip> http://consumerist.com/5171041/8000-comcast-passwords-exposed-phishing-scam-suspected ~~~
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