TWC Says no Sign of Breach in Its System; Some Customer Data Compromised
As many as 320,000 Time Warner Cable customers' email addresses and account passwords likely were stolen either via malware downloaded in a phishing attack or indirectly in a data breach of another company that stored TWC customer information, TWC said…
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Thursday. In a notice sent to customers this week, TWC said it had been notified by the FBI about the possible data compromise and recommended that customers change their account passwords. The company in a statement said it also was notifying customers via direct mail, and that customers whose account information was stolen are being contacted individually "to make them aware and to help them reset their passwords."