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Records of roughly four million Time Warner Cable customers in the US were exposed to the public internet after a contractor failed to properly secure an Amazon cloud database.
Researchers with security company Kromtech said freelancers who handled web applications for TWC and other companies had left one of its AWS S3 storage bins containing seven years' worth of subscriber data wide open on the 'net. That data included addresses and contact numbers, information about their home gateways, and account settings.
Just before the weekend, Kromtech said the vulnerable AWS instance was operated by BroadSoft, a cloud service provider that had been using the S3 silos to hold the SQL database information that included customer records.
The researchers found that the database included information on four million TWC customers collected between November 26, 2010 and July 7, 2017. The exposed data included customer billing addresses, phone numbers, usernames, MAC addresses, modem hardware serial numbers, account numbers, and details about the service settings and options for the accounts.
A spokesperson for TWC parent company Charter said the telly giant was aware of the cockup, and is notifying the customers who were exposed.
Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/05/twc_loses_4m_customer_records/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by crafoo on Monday September 11 2017, @04:15PM (4 children)
Protecting our private information is not important because people have told corporations that it is not important. Until the information of private citizens is protected by strong regulatory laws, and those laws are actively enforced, no one will care. It's going to have to get much worse for a majority of people to care enough to demand regulation. After all, the collective citizens' pain must outweigh the "free speech" of many large corporations before a law is written.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday September 11 2017, @04:44PM (2 children)
On the other hand this might hasten the demise of a non-changeable, "secret" 9-digits as a de-facto uber-identity.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday September 11 2017, @06:57PM
It’s not going to happen, OK? Remember that. It’s not going to happen. I’m going to save Social Security. You’ve been paying into it for a long time and a lot of these guys want it to be knocked to hell. You have tremendous waste, fraud and abuse. We have in Social Security thousands of people over 106 years old. You know they don’t exist. There’s tremendous waste, fraud and abuse, and we’re going to get it. But we’re not going to hurt the people who have been paying into Social Security their whole life and then all of a sudden they’re supposed to get less. We’re going to save your Social Security and we’re going to save your Medicare. We are going to save it because we’re going to make our country rich again, we’re going to bring back our jobs. We’re not going to let our jobs go. We’re bringing jobs back. And we’re going to be able to afford. What I want to do is take money back from other countries that are killing us and I want to save Social Security. You save it by making the United States, by making us rich again, by taking back all of the money that’s being lost. And we’re going to save it without increases. I said let's raise the age. We're living longer. We're working longer. New medicines are extending healthy human life. I said it's a Ponzi scheme, no, I changed my mind. It's a fantastic Ponzi scheme, we're keeping it. We’re not going to raise the age and it will be just fine. 🇺🇸
(Score: 4, Interesting) by chromas on Monday September 11 2017, @08:08PM
We should each be given our own personal IPv6 /64 for ID.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Monday September 11 2017, @06:00PM
Until the information of private citizens is protected by strong regulatory laws...
Our incumbent politicians have no intention of writing such laws. The only effective message we can send is to *Sweep the House* next year of all democrats and republicans. And if we don't, then we just have to live with it.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..