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People's Energy

Disclosed Feb 23, 2021358,822 accountsUnverified

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).

What is known

People affected358,822 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedFeb 23, 2021
HappenedDec 16, 2020
AttackNot stated
Data exposedDates of birthEmailsNamesPasswordsPhone numbersAddresses
SectorEnergy
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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Added2026-09-25
First recordedby backfillSource

First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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