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I don't remember ever having given them my SSN, but then again I've been a customer of theirs (under my current name) since the late 1990s and simply transferred accounts from one house to another every time I've moved.
Sorry, Elke; my bad, I forgot that non-Optimum customers can't see Newsday pages anymore.
Relevant sections:
DATA BREACH EXPOSES ALTICE EMPLOYEE, OPTIMUM CUSTOMER INFORMATION
A data breach at Altice USA Inc. has exposed the Social Security numbers, birth dates and other personal information of all 12,000 current employees as well as some former employees and a small number of customers, the company said.
The breach occurred in November when an “unauthorized third party” used email phishing to gain access to the email account credentials of employees, said Lisa Anselmo, a spokeswoman for Altice. The stolen credentials were used to remotely access and download the contents of mailboxes.
“During our investigation, we learned in January 2020 that certain downloaded mailboxes contained password-protected reports that included personal information for current employees and some former employees," she said. "A limited number of customers were also included.”
Anselmo did not respond Tuesday to questions about how many customers were affected. Altice had nearly 5 million residential and business customers in December 2018, according to a securities filing.
Colleen Schmidt, Altice’s executive vice president of human resources, said the company is offering free identity and credit monitoring for one year from the credit reporting service Experian. Affected individuals have until April 30 to apply for the service, she said.
Altice USA reported the breach to federal law enforcement agencies, secured the email accounts, hired a computer forensics company and is training all employees in how to recognize and avoid phishing email, Anselmo said.
The article says most of the compromised data was for employees, with a "small number" of customers potentially affected. So as long as you haven't worked for Optimum or Altice, you're probably fine.
The article says most of the compromised data was for employees, with a "small number" of customers potentially affected. So as long as you haven't worked for Optimum or Altice, you're probably fine.
What is considered small though. If they have 100,000 subscribers, small could be 1, 100, 1,000, 10,000 or 49,999.
Most of our data was leaked from the equifax breach.
Just watch your credit reports, sign up for free services with credit change alerts or/and freeze your credit with the 3 bureau and go on with your day.
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