Data breach leaks SSNs of over 230,000 Comcast customers

A information breach has exposed the names, addresses, societal information numbers, and birthdates of much than 237,700 Comcast customers. The breach stems from a information incidental astatine Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS), a indebtedness postulation bureau Comcast antecedently used, according to a filing with the authorities of Maine connected Friday reported by Bleeping Computer and TechCrunch.

FBCS revealed that it had suffered a breach successful February, exposing the delicate accusation of more than 4.2 cardinal people. FBCS informed Comcast successful July that its lawsuit information had been affected, saying an “unauthorized enactment downloaded information from FBCS systems and encrypted immoderate systems arsenic portion of a ransomware attack.”

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Comcast says the information included successful the breach “dates from astir 2021,” and that it stopped utilizing FBCS’s services successful 2020. Truist Bank besides revealed that immoderate of its customers were impacted by the FBCS breach. Comcast is providing individuality theft extortion and recognition monitoring services to customers affected by the leak.

Last December, Comcast disclosed a monolithic information breach impacting more than 35 cardinal people, including names, interaction information, partial societal information numbers, and commencement dates.