Cox Communications

Cox Communications, a large cable company recently suffered a data breach incident in December 2021.

The attackers impersonated a Cox agent through a social engineering attack and managed to access the company's customer data.

The compromised data includes address, telephone number, Cox account number, usernames, and other personal information of the customers.

The company with the help of cyber security experts investigated the attack and secured its data from such future attacks and notified the affected customers of the breach.

Source: https://www.komando.com/security-privacy/cox-communications-data-breach/819008/

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"linkid": "cox-communications",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "12/2021",
"severity": "90",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"