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Data breach hits four million Time Warner app users
BBC News Sensitive information about more than four million users of an app created by Time Warner Cable has been accidentally exposed online. Security company Kromtech found 600GB of unprotected data on an Amazon server last month. User names, account … |
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Time Warner Cable Customer Records Leaked in Data Breach
Hollywood Reporter Charter says customers who used the My TWC app were the ones affected by the breach. Charter Communications acknowledged Friday that it discovered a data breach that made the private information of some of its customers available to outsiders. |
In Raleigh, North Carolina, customers of Time Warner Cable are seeing blurry, pixelated TV channels when Verizon LTE phones are used in the same room.
A report by WRAL in Raleigh says that “Time Warner Cable in the Triangle recently placed some channels, including WRAL, on the same spot in the broadband spectrum that serves Verizon’s 4G LTE data service.”
Those channels are transmitting on the same 700MHz spectrum also used by Verizon, and the cable system is seemingly unable to block out the signals. The WRAL story points the finger at cable boxes being incapable of dealing with interference, although it’s also possible that a bad coaxial cable could be causing the problem. Cable systems are allowed to use the same spectrum as wireless carriers, as long as they keep the transmissions on the wire and don’t interfere with cellular service.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Netflix Bends To Warner Bros., Won’t Rent DVDs For 28 Days After They Go On Sale (NFLX) — This will please the movie industry: Netflix has agreed to a 28-day window before it rents Warner Bros. DVDs and Blu-ray discs after they go on sale. The idea is that this will allow Warner Bros. to sell more discs …