{"id":864283,"date":"2024-10-08T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=864283"},"modified":"2024-10-08T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T04:49:00","slug":"comcast-reports-data-breach-affecting-230000-customers-in-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/08\/comcast-reports-data-breach-affecting-230000-customers-in-ransomware-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Comcast reports data breach affecting 230,000 customers in ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US telecom giant, Comcast has confirmed that a data breach involving some of its customers&#8217; information occurred in February 2024. The company revealed the incident following a recent court filing in Maine.<br \/>\nHow the data breach happened<br \/>\nAccording to the filing, the data breach originated from a ransomware attack targeting Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS), a debt collection agency previously used by Comcast.<br \/>\nHackers gained unauthorised access to FBCS&#8217;s computer network between February 14th and 26th, 2024. During this time, they reportedly downloaded sensitive data and encrypted some of the agency&#8217;s systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US telecom giant, Comcast has confirmed that a data breach involving some of its customers&#8217; information occurred in February 2024. The company revealed the incident following a recent court filing in Maine. How the data breach happened According to the filing, the data breach originated from a ransomware attack targeting Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS), a debt collection agency previously used by Comcast. Hackers gained unauthorised access to FBCS&#8217;s computer network between February 14th and 26th, 2024. During this time, they reportedly downloaded sensitive data and encrypted some of the agency&#8217;s systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}