Comcast said Monday a mid-October cybersecurity incident stemming from a Citrix software vulnerability may have involved certain Xfinity customer information getting taken.
The telecommunication company told Xfinity customers that usernames and hashed passwords were among the data “likely acquired” by the perpetrator of the “unauthorized access to its internal systems” via the vulnerability between Oct. 16-18. Hashed passwords are created with an algorithm that transforms a password “into a short string of different numbers and letters for security purposes,” according to Comcast.
The names, contact information, last four digits of social security numbers, dates of birth and/or secret questions of some customers may also have been obtained, Comcast said.
In a Tuesday statement to FOX Business, the company said it “promptly patched and mitigated the vulnerability” in the Citrix software that many other firms also utilize. It did so shortly after Citrix’s initial disclosure about…
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