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Last week, a Federal Court in Pennsylvania indicted three alleged members of a hacker gang for conspiracy for hijacking Comcast.net homepage last year and replacing it with their own shout-out message to other hackers. The indictment also stated that the three were able to pull off their prank by hacking a Comcast e-mail account which allowed them to contact the company domain name registrar and gain control of the said domain.
That should inspire confidence to all Comcast subscribers that their personal information is in good hands.

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