This is just a quick summary of another forum thread.
The FCC announced yesterday that Cox will pay a civil penalty of $595,000 and implement a compliance plan to protect against consumer data breaches. The FCC said that Cox electronic data systems were hacked in August 2014. The hacker viewed personal data of Cox"s current and former customers, including personal information such as name, home address, email address, phone number, partial Social Security Number, partial driver"s license number and telephone customers' account-related data. The FCC said that the hacker posted some of the hacked information on social media, changed the passwords of some customers and shared the information with another alleged hacker. The FCC said that Cox did not report the breaches through the Commission"s breach-reporting portal.
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