People's Energy

What Happened

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). The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to pom@pompur.in.

Compromised Data

Dates of birth
Email addresses
Names
Passwords
Phone numbers
Physical addresses

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    358.8 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    December 2020

  • Added to HIBP:

    23 Feb 2021

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