Renewable electricity and gas supplier People’s Energy has told its 250,000-plus customers that a “gap” in the security of its IT system was exploited by digital burglars.
The British company’s co-founders Karin Sode and David Pike wrote to customers on Thursday morning to confirm that “yesterday People’s Energy was affected by a cyber security data breach.”
“No financial information, bank account details, or People’s Energy online account passwords have been compromised for any domestic customers. However, some personal detailed were accessed,” the email, mirrored on its website, stated.
This data included member names, home addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, People’s Energy account numbers, tariff details, and meter identification numbers.
“We have identified how our systems were accessed and the gap in our security has ..
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