Researchers discover exposed Comcast database containing 1.5 billion records
The WebsitePlanet research team in cooperation with security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password protected database that contained more than 1.5 billion records. The database belonged to American cable and internet giant Comcast, and the publicly visible records included dashboard permissions, logging, client IPs, @comcast email addresses, and hashed passwords.
There were a large number of remote and internal IP addresses, node names and other details that could provide a blueprint for internal functionality, logging, and overall structure of the network. Even if it is a non-production environment, say the researchers, it potentially mirrors the primary data structure and could hypothetically expose how the monitoring works or provide clues to where customer or production data is stored.