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Word is spreading that some 320,000 Time Warner Cable (TWC) customers have had their account information accessed by crooks. America's second-largest cable provider says that the FBI tipped it off to a huge cache of customer login credentials that appears to have been gathered by criminals. TWC told us it is notifying those …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Don't these Yank ISP's run a local network that is NAT'ed to the outside, like AOL (where are they gone - where's my BEER MATS delivered each week!)?

    Once you get into the private LAN, all your base belong to us?

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  2. Efros

    Unfortunately

    I'm a TWC customer (I prefer the term hostage), fortunately I have been sufficiently distrustful of them to never have had a recurring payment with them so they have no recorded bank or credit card details from me, or at least they shouldn't have! Phew.

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  3. a_yank_lurker

    General Security Practice

    The best security advice I have see is to use a password manager to keep one's unique passwords for every log in. Thus, one only has one password to change if a site is breached.

    Another point is not trust links in emails, particularly is some email says there is a major problem with your account. Manually enter the address and see what is actually occurring.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Linux

    TWC didn't get breached?

    "The most likely culprit is a phishing attack targeting TWC customers"

    Which begs the question as to why the passwords were stored in the clear, instead of a hashed/salted token like every other online system since the dawn of the computer age.

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    1. DropBear
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      Re: TWC didn't get breached?

      You are aware that "phishing" means you click through to a malicious site impersonating the proper one, where you enter your credentials with your own two hands due to sheer stupidity being excessively gullible, yes...?

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