Time Warner Breached; 320,000 Customers Urged to Change Passwords
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 01/08/2016 06:07 AM
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If you have a Time Warner cable account, you are urged to change your passwords.
The FBI contacted Time Warner and warned that someone may have breached their system and stolen 320,000 passwords and account data. Time Warner claims customers’ information may have been accessed via “malware downloaded during phishing attacks or indirectly through data breaches of other companies that stored TWC customer information, including email addresses.”
Eric Mangan, a spokesman for Time Warner Cable, said that there are no indications that the company’s systems were breached. However, he is urging customers to change their email passwords.
“For those customers whose account information was stolen, we are contacting them individually to make them aware and to help them reset their passwords. Additionally, through our website we provide several tips for how to navigate the Web more carefully and how to avoid phishing schemes,” Mangan said.
The FCC is still in the middle of reviewing Charter Communications Inc.’s purchase of Time Warner Cable Inc. If completed, the $55.1 billion deal, first announced last May, would make the entity the second-largest cable and broadband provider in the country.
Source: ThreatPost
The FBI contacted Time Warner and warned that someone may have breached their system and stolen 320,000 passwords and account data. Time Warner claims customers’ information may have been accessed via “malware downloaded during phishing attacks or indirectly through data breaches of other companies that stored TWC customer information, including email addresses.” Eric Mangan, a spokesman for Time Warner Cable, said that there are no indications that the company’s systems were breached. However, he is urging customers to change their email passwords.
“For those customers whose account information was stolen, we are contacting them individually to make them aware and to help them reset their passwords. Additionally, through our website we provide several tips for how to navigate the Web more carefully and how to avoid phishing schemes,” Mangan said.
The FCC is still in the middle of reviewing Charter Communications Inc.’s purchase of Time Warner Cable Inc. If completed, the $55.1 billion deal, first announced last May, would make the entity the second-largest cable and broadband provider in the country.
Source: ThreatPost
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