It seems like every day we hear about another breach of private data. Today is no different. Comcast is the latest victim.

Comcast is having to reset passwords of thousands of users after it found evidence of the data being sold on the dark web.

Although the total of leaked accounts amounted to 590,000, only 200,000 were active accounts. The stolen data was email addresses and passwords.

Comcast said that the breach was not the result of any of its systems or applications being compromised. The company blamed the incident on malware infecting unsuspecting customers or attackers using other schemes to obtain information from the victims.

Comcast will not be offering credit monitoring because it says its systems were not hacked. For the most part, victims will be handled on a person to person basis and will be told to reset their passwords.

On Nov. 7 computer researcher @flanvel tweeted a short list of the accounts being sold on the Dark Web. He went on to say that he would sell 100,000 addresses for $300. Comcast checked the accounts against their data and said that "the vast majority of information out there was invalid.”

Source: SCMagazine