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Breach occurred 2020-12-16Verifiedpeoplesenergy.co.uk
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).
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The People's Energy data breach occurred on December 16, 2020. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on February 23, 2021.
358,822 accounts were affected by the People's Energy data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The People's Energy breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers, Physical addresses.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the People's Energy breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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