P
P
Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
359K
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
6
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2020
PeoplesEnergy

Breach History

PeoplesEnergy
Dec 2020Critical
358.8K
Records exposed
6
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In December 2020, the UK power company People's Energy suffered a data breach. The breach exposed almost 7GB of files containing 359k unique email addresses along with names, phones numbers, physical addresses and dates of birth. The incident also included People's Energy staff email addresses and bcrypt password hashes (no customer passwords were exposed).

Exposed Data Types
Dates of birthEmail addressesNamesPasswordsPhone numbersPhysical addresses
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Dates of birthMedium risk
Email addressesLow risk
NamesLow risk
PasswordsHigh risk
Phone numbersMedium risk
Physical addressesMedium risk