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Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers (techcrunch.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers::Hackers exploited a known but unpatched flaw, allowing hackers access to the sensitive information of almost 36 million Comcast customers.

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[–] eager_eagle 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

a good reason to always have your vpn on

[–] thann 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That way your info only gets exposed when the VPN sells it

[–] Tangent5280 6 points 11 months ago

Depends on what VPN

[–] eager_eagle 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

only if you choose one that logs data.

an ISP-only approach is objectively worse in every way: not only you often don't even have an option to choose between them, but they have all your private info, are subject to your country's laws, and they're known to log and report data to 3 letter agencies, data that can probably also be stolen or purchased by other bad actors.