Time Warner Cable

Dating back to 2010, approximately 4 million records containing Time Warner Cable subscribers' personal information were leaked

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Roughly four million records containing the personal details of Time Warner Cable (TWC) customers were discovered stored on an Amazon server without a password in August 2017.

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The files, more than 600GB in size, were discovered on August 24 by the Kromtech Security Center while its researchers were investigating an unrelated data breach at World Wrestling Entertainment. Two Amazon S3 buckets were eventually found and linked to BroadSoft, a global communications company. 

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Broadsoft also partners with AT&T

The data stolen includes usernames, emails addresses, MAC addresses, device serial numbers, and financial transaction data. Other databases published billing addresses, phone numbers, and other communication info for at least hundreds of thousands of TWC subscribers. The servers also included a slew of internal company records, including SQL database dumps, internal emails, and code including the credentials to an unknown number of external systems.

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This breach inadvertently leaked not only customer and partner data but also private credentials that criminals could easily use to monitor or access company’s network and infrastructure.

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