Comcast data breach
The Comcast breach happened on November 8, 2015 and exposed 616,882 accounts. 3 kinds of data were exposed.
Overview
- Site
- comcast.net
- Breach date
- November 8, 2015
- Recorded on
- February 8, 2016
- Accounts exposed
- 616,882
- Exposed data
- Email addresses, Passwords, Physical addresses
- Risk score
- 69 out of 100
Risk based on the exposed data
This breach scores 69 out of 100. The score is driven mostly by Passwords, Physical addresses, Email addresses.
The risk score is a guide to how dangerous a breach is, judged by the kinds of data exposed. The number of accounts is not included.
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- Ancestry (2015-11-07, 297,806 accounts)
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- InterPals (2015-11-04, 3,439,414 accounts)
What affected users should do
- Change your Comcast password, and also change it on any other service where you used the same password. You can create a new one with the password generator.
- Turn on two-factor authentication for your login.
This site organizes publicly available information about data breaches. Data as of December 24, 2017. Breach dates are as originally listed; when only the month is known, the date is recorded as the 1st.