Comcast resets 200k cleartext passwords, hacker claims breach

Does Talktalk offer an email service? Icing on the cake if they used this software :-)

So they store the passwords as plain text.

Quality service!

Can we have a rule please? Anyone who uses SHA-1 or weaker for passwords gets publicly slapped.

Anyone who uses plain text gets a kick in the balls.

And that's per password.

SOS, DD

When I informed Comcast that their mail servers had been compromised, they told me it was my problem, not there's. Comcast has a litany of tech and criminal issues including their illegal blocking of legitimate international e-mail sent to U.S. Comcast customers. The illegal blockage of all e-mail from hundreds of legitimate international ISPs is not only outrageous it is illegal and constitutes consumer fraud as consumers are paying Comcast to deliver all legitimate e-mail. It's time that the FCC and FTC get off their fat asses and convict Comcast cable for their violations of law. Comcast should also be heavily fined for their negligence in having insecure servers that allowed hackers to steal e-mail and personal information.

Hmm, maybe that explains

why my wife's Comcast email (the only busy one of the four we have, mostly for websites that insist) was curiously silent for about 24 hours a day or so back. Several folks asked her via various other channels if she had received the email they had sent. Test email we sent from gmail etc. showed up, so it wasn't just the Comcast DNS throwing a wobbly again. If only it was possible to get internet connectivity in my neighborhood from someone who wasn't incompetent or a crook (Inclusive OR, of course).

OTOH, we weren't told about any such password reset, and the previous password still works. OTOOH, it's not like we're still using the one from 2013.