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U.S. telecommunication giant Comcast has warn that cybercriminals stole the personal information of more than 230,000 customers during a ransomware attack on a third - party provider of debt collection service .
The breach bear on to a February cyberattack on Financial Business and Consumer Solutions ( FBCS ) , a Pennsylvania - base debt collection agency used by Comcast .
Ina file away with Maine ’s attorney generalon Friday , Comcast said that FBCS initially told the company in March that the security measures incident involved no Comcast customer data . later on in July , FBCS notified Comcast that its customer data point had in fact been compromised .
The stolen data point belongs to those register as customers at “ around 2021 , ” Comcast pronounce , adding that the company kibosh using FBCS for debt collection in 2020 .
FBCS has not yet unwrap the nature of its security incident but Comcast ’s filing confirms it was a ransomware attack .
“ From February 14 and February 26 , 2024 , an unauthorized party gained access to FBCS ’s computer internet and some of its data processor , ” the filing states . “ During this clock time , the unauthorized company download data from FBCS systems and encrypted some systems as part of a ransomware attack . ”
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The incident has not yet been claimed by any major ransomware chemical group and FBCS previously blamed an “ unauthorized role player ” for the attack .
FBCS did not respond to TechCrunch ’s enquiry .
In a filing with Maine ’s attorney general earlier this year , FBCS reassert that more than 4 million multitude had their personal information access during the February cyberattack . It ’s not be intimate how many of FBCS ’ client were affected , but the organizationsaid in its information breach noticethat , in some cases , the attackers accessed medical claims and health indemnity information .
CF Medical , a medical debt - buy company that move by the trade name Capio , has confirmed it was among the organizations that saw client wellness data stolen as a resultant role of the FBCS falling out . In September , CF Medical saidmore than 620,000 individualshad personal and health entropy stolen .
Truist Bank — one of the big bank in the United States — also confirmed it was affected by the incident , asrecently filedwith California ’s attorney full general . It ’s not yet know how many of Truist Bank ’s 10 million customers were affected , but the banking giant warned that the attackers accessed name , speech , account numbers , dates of birth , and Social Security turn .
