Time Warner Cable says 320,000 passwords possibly stolen
Time Warner Cable Inc. said the email addresses and passwords of about 320,000 of its customers nationwide may have been stolen by hackers. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
NEW YORK » Time Warner Cable says the email addresses and passwords of about 320,000 of its customers nationwide may have been stolen by hackers.
Time Warner Cable Inc. says it was told by the FBI about the possible compromise and has yet to determine how the information was stolen. But the company says there’s no evidence of a breach of the Time Warner Cable systems that operate customer email accounts.
The New York-based company says it’s likely that the emails and passwords were previously stolen either through malware downloaded during phishing attacks, or indirectly through data breaches of other companies that stored Time Warner Cable customer information.
The New York company is contacting customers who may be affected and asking them to change their email passwords as a precaution. It emphasizes that the account information potentially stolen represents less than 2 percent of the total number of customer email accounts it manages.
20 responses to “Time Warner Cable says 320,000 passwords possibly stolen”
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When paying your bills, stick to snail mail, and help support our USPS. By doing so you save yourself from future heartaches and from sophisticated scammers!
Have all your bills paid with automatic withdrawals using your airline miles credit card. Have been doing this for years and have not paid for one airline flight since. Plus, my mail has been stolen 4 or 5 times over the years so no thank you snail mail. The Post office is going the way of the dinosaur unless they re-invent themselves to compete with UPS and FED-EX.
Everyone avoids using the easy passwords. So my password of, 12345, is really the most secure.
But then they tell you “password is too easy, please use at least one alpha character, one upper case letter, one lower case letter, one alphanumeric number, one period, one comma, two plus signs and arrange them in a manner that puts the lower case letter before the upper case letter and then followed by another lower case letter, a comma and one minus sign but not necessarily in that order”
….and they expect old bucks like me to remember them! Lol
Try using a saying that you always use, like “WhatwoodSc00byD00?”. Misspell a word, or use another language, like “WeegoMokuleia!”. Something easy for you to remember, while at the same time hard for a bot to decipher.
…Moa. That’s why I stay tattoo my password on my dog’s tail.
One comma, two plus signs, and a partridge in a pear tree.
You should try mine, which is 5 asterisks.
You think you a five star general or a five star restaurant?
It would be helpful to know if Oceanic Cable customers were part of the 2% of accounts that were stolen.
Ask the hackers next time.
cholo will blame the hackers when the wife receives the bill with ppv porn on it
You see one P, you seen them all.
until you seen them in high def. then cholo thinks you might regret it. some things were not meant to be viewed in great detail.
I just read a story about the Virtual Reality stuff….supposed to be scary real.
“Have seen” Do not ever attack HIDOE until you can conjugate English verbs please.
I received this e-mail with a link to change my password so I called Oceanic and they said that this was a scam just to obtain my password and don’t click on the link. Why isn’t that mentioned in this article?
Because, this is the Star Advertiser.
Oh – I do believe you’re right there.