Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Comcast, the largest cable operator in the U.S., said personal data for approximately 35.9 million customers of its Xfinity services may have been illegally accessed by hackers in a security breach that occurred in October.
On Monday, Comcast began notifying customers of the hack. The cable giant disclosed in a filing with the Maine attorney general that the breach affected as many as 35,879,455 customers.
According to Comcast’s notice to customers, on Oct. 10, 2023, one of Xfinity’s software providers, cloud-computing provider Citrix, announced a vulnerability in one of its products used by Xfinity (among other companies).
Comcast said it “promptly patched and mitigated our systems” but subsequently discovered that between Oct. 16-19, 2023, there “was unauthorized access to some of our internal systems that we concluded was a result of this vulnerability.” On Dec.
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