Time Warner Cable Says Data Breach May Affect 320,000 Customers

(Bloomberg) – Email addresses and passwords belonging to about 320,000 Time Warner Cable Inc. customers may have been stolen, the company said.

The source of the theft hasn’t been determined,Scott Pryzwansky, a Time Warner Cable spokesman, said in an e-mail. He said there are no signs the company’s systems were breached.

The e-mail addresses and passwords were likely taken after customers downloaded malicious software or after a data breach of another company that stored data belonging to Time Warner Cable customers, according to Pryzwansky.

To contact the reporter on this story: Gerry Smith in New York at gsmith233@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story: Cecile Daurat at cdaurat@bloomberg.net Anthony Palazzo 01-06-16 1944EST

This story was originally published January 6, 2016 at 8:39 PM with the headline "Time Warner Cable Says Data Breach May Affect 320,000 Customers."