8, 000 Comcast Passwords Exposed, Phishing Scam Suspected

["V." <veedot () earthlink net>]

8,000 Comcast Passwords Exposed, Phishing Scam Suspected
Mon Mar 16 2009

The 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 himself­he used <http://www.pipl.com/>pipl 
to perform a search on his name and address­and 
he deserves a slap somewhere else for using the same password on every account.

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http://consumerist.com/5171041/8000-comcast-passwords-exposed-phishing-scam-suspected
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