Charter breach may affect substantial share of 31.68 million customers

The immediate issue is scale: Charter has confirmed a breach, and early indicators suggest a substantial portion of its 31.68 million customers may be affected. For the streaming and delivery ecosystem, that raises scrutiny around customer data handling at a major operator with a very large subscriber base. The article does not identify the exposed data or the attack path, so the next concrete signal to watch is whether Charter releases a fuller scope statement on impacted records and the number of customers tied to the incident.