Brightspeed investigates breach as crims post stolen data for sale

Internet service provider Brightspeed confirmed that it's investigating criminals' claims that they stole more than a million customers' records and have listed them for sale for three bitcoin, or about $276,370. 

"We are currently investigating reports of a cybersecurity event. As we learn more, we will keep our customers, employees and authorities informed," Brightspeed spokesperson Gene Rodriguez Miller told The Register, but declined to answer specific questions about the cyber crooks' claims. 

"We take the security of our networks and protection of our customers' and employees' information seriously and are rigorous in securing our networks and monitoring threats," Rodriguez Miller said.

On Sunday night, a cybercrime crew called Crimson Collective said in its Telegram channel that it had, "in our hands," more than one million residential users' details including: customer/account master records containing names, emails, phone numbers, billing and service addresses; session and user IDs; payment history ...