Overview
- Brightspeed confirmed it is investigating reports of a cybersecurity event and said it will keep customers, employees, and authorities informed.
- Crimson Collective published small samples of alleged data, including 50 entries from multiple tables tied to customer PII, billing, and service records.
- The group set a price of three bitcoin for the purported dataset and threatened to dump the data publicly if no buyer emerges within a week.
- Crimson Collective claims it disconnected many home internet users, but no independent verification has surfaced and the cause of scattered connectivity complaints remains unclear.
- Brightspeed serves customers across about 20 states, and researchers warn ISP breaches can carry wider societal risks; the group has also previously claimed a major Red Hat intrusion.