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"The company says for an unspecified number of customers, hackers may have also accessed names, contact information, dates of birth, the last four-digits of Soc
by jerf 3y ago
"The company says for an unspecified number of customers, hackers may have also accessed names, contact information, dates of birth, the last four-digits of Social Security numbers, and their secret questions and answers."
Ah, yes, it truly gives me hope for the future of humanity when these hackers break in to a corporate database like this, have total access to all this sensitive data, and then, out of a sense of fair play and comity, run "SELECT * FROM customers LIMIT UNSPECIFIED" rather than just "SELECT * FROM customers". It's so nice of them to access only an "unspecified" number of customer's data rather than all of them.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- a1369209993 3y agoTo be fair, Comcast's database software is probably crap made by Oracle or something. It's not totally implausible that it crashed partway through printing the results of "SELECT * FROM customers" so the last X% was never sent.
- grepfru_it 3y agoWe used MariaDB, Couchbase, Hadoop, etc. May not be the same system you are referring to, but Comcast isn’t some old dinosaur of a company.
- mixdup 3y ago1000% guarantee the billing system is A Very Enterprise Level database like Oracle or SAP and not postgres or MariaDB