Thousands of user names and
passwords for Comcast customers was removed from document sharing Web site
Scribd, two months after it was posted there.
Scribd did not know the list
was there until hack Brad Stone at The New York Times warned it about it.
Stone was contacted by a Comcast customer who happened across the list after
doing a search on his own e-mail address on search engine Pipl.
Comcast
spokeswoman Jennifer Khoury told The New York Times that the list was probably
compiled from phishing or some other related type of attack and not from inside
Comcast.
Email accounts of customers whose data was exposed have been frozen
and Comcast is contacting them. More than 4,000 names and emails were exposed
according to CNet.
More
here.