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People's Energy

PeoplesEnergy Data Breach (2020)

People's Energy

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Disclosed

December 1, 2020

1942 days ago

Records

358.8K

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Finance

Description

UK energy firm People's Energy reported a data breach that affected all its 270,000 current customers. The breach resulted in the theft of an entire customer database, including names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, tariff details, and energy meter IDs. Although financial information was not accessed for most customers, 15 small-business customers had their bank account details compromised.

Exposed Data Types

Exposed Data

PasswordsPhone NumbersPhysical addressesNamesEmail addresses