Comcast said nearly 36 million U.S. Xfinity accounts were compromised after hackers gained access to its systems through a vulnerability in third-party cloud-computing software. The cable giant said the compromised data includes usernames and “hashed” passwords — which had been scrambled and stored in a way that makes them unreadable by humans — as well as names, contact information, birth dates, the last four digits of users’ social security numbers and secret questions and answers.
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