Neoseeker is reporting that as many as 8000 Comcast email accounts have been compromised. The breach was discovered by a professor at Wilkes University. While doing a search on his email address he found a document hosted on Scribd that contained the usernames and passwords of thousands of Comcast customers. What’s more, the list had been there for at least 2 months and had been accessed thousands of times. Comcast is denying responsibility:

Jennifer Khoury, a Comcast spokeswoman, responded stating that they did not believe this information was provided by anyone inside the company citing lack of structure on account numbers and duplicity on some of the information. Instead, the information appeared to have been gathered through a phishing type scheme.

Comcast says they are freezing the accounts that were compromised and will notify their owners. If you have a Comcast account you’d be doing yourself a favor if you changed your password. Can’t be to careful! It’s not yet known who owns the document or how the data was obtained but experts believe it could be the result of a phishing scheme.