Comcast Breach Compromises 36 Million Accounts

Comcast said nearly 36 million U.S. Xfinity accounts were compromised after hackers gained access to its systems through a vulnerability in third-party cloud-computing software.

The cable giant said the compromised data includes usernames and “hashed” passwords—which had been scrambled and stored in a way that makes them unreadable by humans—as well as names, contact information, birth dates, the last four digits of users’ social security numbers and secret questions and answers.