Four million Time Warner Cable records exposed in leak

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Four million Time Warner Cable records exposed in leak

Stored on open Amazon server.

More than four million records of users of Time Warner Cable's MyTWC app were found unsecured on an Amazon server last month. The files — more than 600 gigabytes in size containing sensitive information such as transaction ID, user names, Mac addresses, serial numbers, account numbers ...

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