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#Comcast Xfinity data breach affects over 35 million people

A #CitrixBleed fatality.

Data accessed includes customer usernames and hashed* passwords. Xfinity is forcing password changes next time you sign into an account.

In some cases data accessed may include:

- Last 4 of SSN
- DOBs
- Secret Questions / Answers exposed

#cybersecurity #security #infosec #xfinity

theverge.com/2023/12/18/240070

The Verge · Xfinity discloses a data breach — but doesn’t say how many users are affectedBy Emma Roth
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@blogdiva Some of it is probably just #citrixbleed being a particularly nasty combination of a solid exploit for core software infrastructure that tons of big businesses use and habitually lag behind in patching, though of course that is itself on several levels a symptom of an overall problem with how American companies are being run.