Frontier Communications: 750k people's data stolen in April attack on systems

Frontier Communications has confirmed more than 750,000 individuals were affected in an April cyberattack on its systems, according to a regulatory filing. Lawyers representing the major US telco told the Office of the Maine Attorney General that data belonging to 751,895 people was stolen. The data types impacted, according …

[ecofeco]

Seems like every day now

Ah, for the good old days when personal data was only stolen a few times a year instead of every single day.

[Anonymous Coward]

The cyber walrus and the cyber carpenter

In da dark abyss of data streams,

Two cyber hustlers, bold in schemes,

Da Walrus and Carpenter, they prowl,

No shame, they surf, no scowl.

"Yo, ride wit' us in dis cyber spree,"

Dey holler, takin' control, you see.

Oysters unsuspectin', fall in line,

Unaware of da trap, da design.

Wit' swift cyber blitz, dey attack,

Oysters' digital sky, dey crack.

When da SEC, net guardians, detect,

Dey chase da crooks, no respek.

[TimMaher]

Re: The cyber walrus and the cyber carpenter

“Will you pay the cyber sum?

But answer came there none—

And this was scarcely odd, because

They'd eaten every one."

[Anonymous Coward]

Why does Frontier even have SSNs?

See title.

[Bitbeisser]

Re: Why does Frontier even have SSNs?

More precisely, why does Frontier have SSN and associated names in clear text in their database?

[An_Old_Dog]

You Know, it Would Be Nice

... if there was an ISP which provided satellite-based Internet service which would let me go to one of their stores and buy a top-up card to pay for my service -- just as many cellphone companies currently do for cellphone service.

They wouldn't know me, I'd just pay with cash, and my personal data couldn't be stolen from them, because they'd never have it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: You Know, it Would Be Nice

Name, address, and phone number should be all they really need - and that's pretty easily available to the public. And some form of payment, of course. There's no excuse for asking for social security number.

[Strong as Taishan Mountains]

Re: You Know, it Would Be Nice

Suspect it's so they can ravage prole's credit scores should a bill be late.