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Social Search Reveals 700 Comcast Customer Logins

Posted by samzenpus on from the easiest-password-to-remember dept.

nandemoari writes "When educational technology specialist Kevin Andreyo recently read a report on people search engines, he decided to conduct a little 'people search' on himself. Andreyo did not expect to find much — so, imagine the surprise when he uncovered the user name and password to his Comcast Internet account, put out there for the entire online world to see. In addition to his personal information, Andreyo also discovered a list that exposed the user names and passwords of (what he believed) to be 8,000 other Comcast customers. Andreyo immediately contacted both Comcast and the FBI, hoping to find the ones responsible for divulging such personal information to the public. While the list is no longer available online, analysts fear that the document still lives on in various cache and online history services."

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  1. While the list is no longer available online by stonedcat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    While the list is no longer available online

    Bullshit I'm sure it's in 100 different places by now.

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    1. Re:While the list is no longer available online by stonedcat · · Score: -1, Redundant

      The summary said it was probably still in caches and history services (such as the wayback machine).
      My point was that anything that is ever posted online that is news worthy is grabbed by internet users everywhere and reposted. Remember the HDDVD hexcode thing?

      I didn't really think I needed to spell out my entire thought process and figured hey I'm on slashdot the smart people here will get what I'm saying.

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