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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: About 200,000 Comcast Customers Asked To Reset Passwords [Watch (HLS stream): About 200,000 Comcast Customers Asked To Reset Passwords](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/KRilbsCl.m3u8) (1:13)  _Published 2015-11-10. After a list of nearly 600,000 Comcast accounts went up for sale on the Dark Web, the company asked 200,000 customers to reset their passwords._ --- Jul 27, 2023 7:07 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Amazon Resets Customer Passwords Over Possible Leak](/video/wJYpxu9X/) ### Amazon Resets Customer Passwords Over Possible Leak [Economy Gains 200,000+ Jobs In July While Unemployment Rises](/video/JtaIpM0T/) ### Economy Gains 200,000+ Jobs In July While Unemployment Rises [First National Anti-Smoking TV Ads Help 200,000 Smokers to Quit](/video/2yBVSwQe/) ### First National Anti-Smoking TV Ads Help 200,000 Smokers to Quit --- ## Transcript About 200, 000 Comcast customers were asked to reset their account passwords after an alleged list of nearly 600, 000 Comcast account credentials was posted online. We say alleged because Comcast reportedly changed Check the list of accounts against its database. Only 200, 000 of the credentials were current. According to security company CSO several people have suggested the larger number, the nearly 400, 000 noncurrent accounts were recycled information from other older data breaches. And that's backed up by the fact Comcast insists it wasn't hacked. Instead, CSO suggests the customers may have given up their information in an unrelated phishing scheme or were victims of malware or some other data breach. Now is the appropriate time to remind you, nay, beg you, to use a different password for each of your accounts. That way if you're user name and password are stolen in a breach, scheme, hack, etc ., the malicious party can't use those credentials to gain access to your other accounts. A Comcast spokesperson said the company is working to get this fixed for those customers who may have been impacted, because it maintains it wasn't hacked, however, the poster boards Comcast won't offer credit monitoring to those affected. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"About 200,000 Comcast Customers Asked To Reset Passwords","description":"After a list of nearly 600,000 Comcast accounts went up for sale on the Dark Web, the company asked 200,000 customers to reset their passwords.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/KRilbsCl/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-11-10T17:17:19.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/KRilbsCl.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/KRilbsCl/","duration":"PT1M13S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/KRilbsCl/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```