Data baccomplish leaks SSNs of over 230,000 Comcast customers

A data baccomplish has exposed the names, insertresses, social security numbers, and birthdates of more than 237,700 Comcast customers. The baccomplish stems from a security incident at Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS), a debt assembleion agency Comcast previously engaged, according to a filing with the state of Maine on Friday telled by Bleeping Computer and TechCrunch.

FBCS uncignoreed that it had suffered a baccomplish in February, exposing the comardent increateation of more than 4.2 million people. FBCS increateed Comcast in July that its customer data had been impacted, saying an “unpermitd party downloaded data from FBCS systems and encrypted some systems as part of a coercion software strike.”

Total number of persons impacted (including livents): 237,703

Total number of Maine livents impacted: 22

Date(s) Baccomplish Occurred: February 14, 2024

Date Baccomplish Discovered: July 17, 2024

Description of the Baccomplish: External system baccomplish (cyber intrusion)

Comcast says the data graspd in the baccomplish “dates from around 2021,” and that it stopped using FBCS’s services in 2020. Truist Bank also uncignoreed that some of its customers were impacted by the FBCS baccomplish. Comcast is providing identity theft protection and praise watching services to customers impacted by the leak.

Last December, Comcast disseald a massive data baccomplish impacting more than 35 million people, including names, reach out increateation, fragmentary social security numbers, and birth dates.