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wildup

WARNING Xfinity likely got hacked exposing millions of customer data

Experience

I use specific email by adding a "plus" to my email (Eg [email protected]). I've been getting phishing emails to the said email that I only use for my Xfinity account. Most are from Paypal invoice request phishing you to pay something related to cryptos. I'm posting this so yall are aware of this and not fall for this scam. Xfinity is obviously hiding the fact that they've been massively hacked.

Posted Sep 6, 2022, 3:11 PM UTC

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FloralBonnettt•

You getting spam mail is not evidence of a "massive" hack. Spammers send out emails to millions of emails that may or may not exist. They've been doing that for years...

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wildupOP•

Don't be naive. There's no way spammers can randomly would know my longass email address. Lol. Fyi I've called out Yahoo's massive hack months before they let it out in public. Same shit. You'll hear about Xfinity hack soon enough.

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2KPr-LO44•

Same boat here but mine was almost a year ago. If Xfinity was hacked, they haven't discovered it yet as I never got notification on it. Most likely Xfinity shared our information to 3rd parties & affiliates for advertising and our information got leak that way.

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80sBaby805•

People can pay to obtain your information. It doesn't mean you got hacked or there's a mass data breach.

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ilikepizza30•

How do you know Xfinity didn't just give them your e-mail address, likely for a fee? (Which is allowed in the TOS you agreed to).

How do you know a spammer didn't just set up an e-mail relay server and catch all the e-mail addresses that go through it? So when Xfinity sent an unencrypted (as all e-mail has unencrypted headers) from Xfinity and it passed through mailserver1, mailserver2, spamcollector1, mailserver3, and finally gmail.com they just collected your e-mail address as it passed by?

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Janice_2022•

Same here.

I changed my Xfinity profile email address to a new unused email a few months ago, and last week fake Paypal invoices started to arrive at this brand new, never used email address.

My theory is a Comcast contractor or vendor is stealing and selling our profile data.

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chriswaco•

I remember when some AOL employee sold their entire email database. Wonder if some Comcast employee is responsible.

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WickedColdfront•

Yes, it’s called the marketing department.

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