Millions of sensitive records from Time Warner Cable and other companies were among the 600 GB of sensitive files potentially leaked online by cloud-based communications provider BroadSoft, said security vendor Kromtech last week. Two accidentally leaked repositories contained thousands of records for several Broadsoft clients, with TWC being the "most prominent," blogged Bob Diachenko, Kromtech chief communications officer. One text file contained more than 4 million records from TWC and Bright House Networks -- rebranded as Spectrum and also now part of Charter Communications -- from 2010 to this year, "with Transaction ID, user names, Mac addresses, Serial Numbers, Account Numbers, Service, Category details, and more," he wrote. Other databases have billing addresses, phone numbers and other data for hundreds of thousands of TWC customers, he said. Diachenko said the leaked data also included internal credentials that criminals could use to track and access company's network and infrastructure. "Upon discovery, the information was removed immediately by the vendor, and we are currently investigating this incident with them," emailed a Charter spokesman Tuesday, saying the "MyTWC app" potentially became visible to external sources. He said there's no indication the company's systems were affected. He said Charter encourages customers who use the app to change user names and passwords. A BroadSoft spokeswoman emailed the company was notified that "a third-party cloud storage site containing internal BroadSoft documentation and end-user customer data was exposed to the public internet." The data didn't include bank or credit card information or Social Security numbers, and the information was secured once BroadSoft was notified, she said. "BroadSoft core IT and cloud unified communication infrastructures were not exposed or compromised."

Videotron licensed Comcast's Xfinity X1 platform for use in its own IPTV service, said the Canadian cable ISP Tuesday. Canada's Rogers Communications and Shaw, plus Cox Communications in the U.S., have also licensed the X1 platform (see 1612160009).

Comcast will make a multiyear, $11 million investment in the 50-square-block The District Detroit sports and entertainment complex for an all-fiber network that will give patrons multi-gigabit speeds, said Little Caesars Arena owner Olympia Entertainment in a news release Wednesday. It said there will be more than 1,000 Wi-Fi access points, and multi-gigabit speed offerings to businesses and residential units in the development.

Christian programmer The Word Network's viewership is growing as religious network audiences wane in general, so when Comcast decided to curb TWN carriage while expanding poorly performing affiliated networks, it becomes obvious discrimination, TWN said in an FCC docket 17-166 filing posted Tuesday. It responded to Comcast's reply earlier this month (see 1708080031) to TWN's carriage complaint. It said a straightforward reading of the Comcast/NBCUniversal order and its conditions clearly show the nondiscrimination condition is "additive" to program carriage rules, and thus the programmer has shown MVPD discrimination by reducing TWN distribution in a way it would never apply to its affiliated programmers. It said Comcast never showed that digital distribution rights aren't a form of affiliation, and disputed Comcast's assertion that TWN can't bring Comcast/NBCU condition violation complaints under program carriage complaint procedures, saying the NBCU order doesn't require these complaints be brought under any specific procedure. Comcast didn't comment.

Showtime hurried its streaming service to market without enough networking bandwidth to support the number of subscribers who paid to watch Saturday night's Mayweather vs. McGregor boxing match, said Portland, Oregon, resident Zack Bartel in a lawsuit (in Pacer) filed Saturday in U.S. District Court in Portland. The Oregon Unlawful Trade Practices Act suit, in docket 17-1331, seeks class-action status for everyone who paid $99.99 to stream the fight live on the Showtime PPV app only to be unable to watch the fight due to grainy video, error screens and buffer events. Showtime didn't comment.

Viacom will launch its Paramount+ subscription VOD service, offering Paramount movie and Viacom TV content, Oct. 1, it announced Friday. It said Paramount+ will be part of the user interface for a variety of pay-TV services in Denmark, Sweden and Norway and available for premium subscribers. The company didn't comment on a time frame for North American availability.

Comments and data on the 19th FCC video competition report are due Oct. 10, replies Nov. 9, the Media Bureau said in a public notice in docket 17-214 and in Friday's Daily Digest. The report will focus on 2016, and the bureau said it will follow a similar analytical framework as the 18th, categorizing video programming delivery into three groups -- MVPDs, TV stations and online video distributors -- and looking at intergroup and intragroup competition.

The American Cable Association is pushing to amend program access rules so the National Cable Television Cooperative would qualify as a buying group. ACA President Matt Polka -- in a meeting with Chairman Ajit Pai's chief of staff, Matthew Berry, and aide Alison Nemeth -- said a 2013 program access amendment order tentatively concluded the buying group definition should be updated as ACA is asking, recounted a filing posted Friday in docket 12-68. Thus the agency should update its buying group definition so NCTC would qualify, it said. ACA periodically has lobbied the FCC on the buying group request (see 1410240046 and 1507020018) and faced programmer pushback (see 1509210047).

Comcast will market residential solar services company Sunrun's offerings, they said Thursday. Under the 40-month agreement, Sunrun is Comcast Cable's exclusive residential solar provider and Comcast will do marketing campaigns in some markets starting later this year. They said the agreement follows a one-year Comcast/Sunrun pilot. Comcast also can earn a warrant of up to 10 percent of Sunrun's outstanding common stock.

Broadband speeds will continue to ramp up in coming years and consumer price per megabit will continue to drop, NCTA blogged Thursday. It said online traffic is expected to quadruple over the next four years, with 4.6 billion global Internet users and the number of connected devices outnumbering people three to one. It said numerous cable ISPs are pursuing gigabit projects now, continuing a decades-old industry trend that has seen top speeds grow 700 percent over the past five years.