Comcast put Xfinity Mobile users in danger of being hacked with the world's worst PIN
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Due to Comcast's negligence, one Washington Post reader claims his Xfinity Mobile phone number was hijacked, switched to a new account on a different network, and used for the unauthorized purchase of an Apple computer. The payment was purportedly charged to the victim's own credit card, which somehow remained linked to the account created by the fraudster with another wireless service provider.
For its part, Comcast claims this horrifying affair was made possible by previous, non-Comcast related breaches of security, where a password belonging to the same user may have been revealed. In other words, the cable giant is not completely at fault here, although to its credit, it's admitting partial blame for this incident and a few others impacting a "very small number of customers."
Going forward, a unique "PIN-based solution" will be implemented to better protect Xfinity Mobile customers from such easy hacks. That's all well and good, but how could a tech company of Comcast's sheer size ever think "0000" was an acceptable way to secure mobile accounts?
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