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posted by Fnord666 on Monday September 11 2017, @02:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the another-day,-another-unsecured-database dept.

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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/


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by chromas on Monday September 11 2017, @08:08PM

    by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 11 2017, @08:08PM (#566354) Journal

    We should each be given our own personal IPv6 /64 for ID.

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