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Comcast has frozen more than 8,000 users names and passwords for Comcast email addresses, a full two months after they were uncovered on the document-sharing site, Scribd.
Scribd reportedly has removed the list thanks mostly to The New York Times’ Brad Stone, who told them once he caught wind of the matter. Stone, who was contacted by one of the customers on the list, writes, “The list on Scribd was one of four results, and it also included his password, which was a riff on his love for a local sports team. Statistics on Scribd indicated that the list, which was uploaded by someone with the user name vuthanhan2004, had been viewed over 345 times and had been downloaded 27 times.”
Comcast claims that the accounts information ended up on the list through a series of phishing attacks on users, and that it wasn’t an internal leak.
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[4] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/comcast_closes_bandwidth_limits_and_overage_charges
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