Data breach leaks SSNs of over 230,000 Comcast customers

Because of the data breach, over 237,700 Comcast customers' names, addresses, social security numbers and birth dates have been compromised. As reported by BleepingComputer  this breach was associated with the security breach involving Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS), a collection agency that worked with Comcast.

 In February, FBCS said it had been breached for the benefits, disclosing personal data of 4.2 million of its customers. In July, FBCS apprised Comcast that its customers’ information was compromised diminishing the effect on “unauthorized persons accessed FBCS’s network and data systems and obtained certain files or breached certain systems for ransomware purposes.” Comcast admitted that all the affected data in the breach “was from around the year 2021” that the company hadn’t used the services of FBCS since 2020. 

Trust bank further admitted that some of its clientele were affected by the leaky client data base of the FBCS. Comcast also notified customers whose personal information was compromised by the hack that they will have identity and credit protection services. It was last reported that last December, modems leased by Comcast had been used to affect over 35 million peoples' data security in a data breach of personal Names, contact, somenic number and date of birth.