Comcast customers have reason to be digruntled.

On Scribd (A website dedicated to document sharing) over 8000 usernames and password of Comcast customers was put up for display to the world. That was two months ago. Yesterday, the list was taken down for the first time.

Brad Stone, of the New York Times, contacted Scribd about the list, after which they immediately took down the document. It is suspected that the data was gained from phishing and other unorthodox methods, and hasn’t been posted by an internal employee or Comcast in any way, according to a Comcast spokesperson.

Comcast immediately acted by freezing all exposed accounts. (Luckily?) Only about 4000 customers had their log-ins exposed, as Comcast revealed that about 50% of the list includes duplicate log-ins.