Personal Data Leak Monitor

People's Energy data breach

359K accounts from People's Energy (peoplesenergy.co.uk) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
December 16, 2020
Accounts
358,822
Added to the database
February 23, 2021

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesNamesPasswordsPhone numbersPhysical addresses

What to do now

  1. Please change that password, and anywhere you reused it
  2. If your birthday is a PIN, kindly change it
  3. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service
  4. Expect scam emails that use your real name
  5. Be alert to fake delivery or unpaid-bill texts and calls

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About this breach

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).

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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