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Comcast Discloses Hackers May Have Stolen Data on 35.9 Million Xfinity Customers (variety.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why exactly am I not surprised?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

After two decades in the tech industry, a lot of it supporting sysadmins, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The best information to collect is no information at all, and the second best information to collect is as little as possible to make the service work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

But how can they turn the customer info and behaviour into revenue if they don't collect it? Won't someone think of the bottom line?! /s