{"id":60,"date":"2020-03-10T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecyberstaff.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2025-12-13T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:30:38","slug":"comcast-xfinity-leaks-data-that-customers-paid-extra-to-keep-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecyberstaff.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Comcast\/Xfinity leaks data that customers paid extra to keep private"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Around 200,000 Comcast\/Xfinity customers paid extra to keep their information private, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grahamcluley.com\/author\/grahamcluley\/\">Graham Cluley<\/a> reports that the &#8220;private&#8221; data was leaked. The data was posted to ecolisting.com, a site used to replace old paper based telephone directories and make them digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The customers were paying extra to keep their names, phone numbers, and addresses out of public databases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not the first time Comcast is in the news for leaking data, Cluley reports that the company was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/09\/18\/comcast-privacy-fine\/\">fined $33 million<\/a>&nbsp;for carelessly publishing the names, phone numbers, and addresses of around 75,000 users in its online directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grahamcluley.com\/comcast-xfinity-200000-customers-privacy\/\">grahamcluley.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 200,000 Comcast\/Xfinity customers paid extra to keep their information private, Graham Cluley reports that the &#8220;private&#8221; data was leaked. The data was posted to ecolisting.com, a site used to replace old paper based telephone directories and make them digital. The customers were paying extra to keep their names, phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}