Comcast email hacked 8/02/21

@XfinityChe1

I was not sure at first how to click on the instructions in your email to me a few days ago.  I tried to contact comcast and speak to a live person from day one and have monitored my account everyday and all day.  I finally talked to a real live person tonight and had my account rechecked for security in which I had on my account and system.  I am on stand by regarding my emails sent folder and need them recovered/restored.  Any resolutions at this point is appreciated. 

@user_b592bf, thank you for updating me on what's been done to help get your account and email secured. I'm really happy to hear you were able to get in touch with one of our phone representatives to get the ball rolling. Our phone team is amazing and highly skilled, so you were in great hands. Do you by chance know if you're working with our Customer Security Assurance (CSA) team? I'd love to stick with you and take a look at your account to provide an update or help things along. Are you able to view the chat icon that says direct message when you hover it at the top right? If so, please send a message to "Xfinity Support" and we can roll up our sleeves and dig in. 

@XfinityChe1 

On last week I was expecting an email to come to me and the person sending it said that they emailed me to my comcast email.  The person sending the email to me was one I send emails to all the time.  She went back in previous emails I sent her and used what shows up normally saved as my name with comcast at the end of my name.  Well when my email address was hacked August 2, 2021.  It took only my sent file folder and comcast restored all those back to me  but bogos emails went to everyone in my sent file folder with my name and yahoo at the end of my name instead of comcast.  The hackers changed comcast to yahoo.  I went into email settings to correct this.

So I am afraid that I am missing emails normally that come to me.  What solutions do I have at this point?  Can a real live person call me?

@kbhousen

Yes the title is what I expected for a transcribed voicemail from Comcast.  Two weeks prior to my account being hacked I got a call from Comcast letting me know that my bill was going to increase from 40.00 to 53.00 for the 1 year promotion being over. I wrote down the sales person name ,etc and when the bill would increase.   I had and have security, etc set up as an alert.  The hackers still got past security thru comcast.  I still don't feel comfortable with what has transpired with my internet service at this point.  They got into my comcast settings and changed the email to part of my name which was just enough to try to fool the recipients of the emails they sent.  The email was set up just like an email from comcast.  When I clicked on it, it was just a blank white screen.  By that time I knew that I had a virus or someone was trying to hack my email within minutes. With in minutes I received calls from friends who got them inquiring if I was ok or not feeling well.   Fortunately, friends call me to verify the email asking for money and knew it was a hack and knew that it did nt sound like something I would do. I didnt loose my emails, nor contacts.  Comcast retrieved my "sent" emails fortunately and they were restored. Just the idea that personal emails or private emails were stolen from my sent mail folder still makes me feel that someone has invaded my privacy. 

@user_b592bf

On that phone call from Comcast did you give them any personal information by any chance?  Comcast doesn't usually call to tell you about your plan ending and your bill increasing.  That is usually done via your billing statement.

No I did not. I got the Comcast female name date and time she called to review my account and to let me know that my internet bill will be increasing from 40.00 to 53.00 monthly now that my annual promotion was up and would still be on auto pay drafting from my checking account. I have put 2 way verifications on all my accounts etc. Even for Comcast. Yesterday  I purchased a new phone and all my accounts work fine with verification codes except Comcast…..Not sure why and should be. I went back in to my account and try to refresh the 3 way authentication ON button to receive text verification and I never got a text code. 2nd option was email verification code. I got it thru email. Prefer text code. It would help if real live people would call to assist customers

@kbhousen 

My email files were restored the next day after I lost them.  I do not know how or why, but I am thankful.  I wish I could help give you a possible solution, but I cannot.

Good luck with your effort.  

@ebarker

Hello! We really appreciate you bringing these concerns to our attention. Feeling secure and that your information is safe is so important! Alternatively, feeling that is jeopardized can be a horrible feeling and we take that very seriously at Xfintiy.

We have a department dedicated to keeping you safe online called our CSA (Customer Security Assurance) department. We highly recommend that if there are any concerns to reach out to them and report it here, https://comca.st/3jRQ7EF or by phone at 1-888-565-4329 from 6:00am - 2:00am EST, 7 days a week.

Additionally, this is a great article we have on our Xfintiy support website about online security: https://comca.st/38LgSV2. This also have several links on what you can do if you feel your security is at risk. Please let us know what else we can help with. Again, we take these concerns very seriously.

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