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Georgia Power, Alabama Power Data Breach Hits 400,000 Accounts
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Georgia Power, Alabama Power Data Breach Hits 400,000 Accounts

Southern Company disclosed that an unauthorized third party accessed customer account data for roughly 400,000 accounts via its online customer portal, affecting Georgia Power (~300,000), Alabama Power (~100,000), and an unspecified number of Mississippi Power customers. Exposed data includes names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, emails, and the last four digits of Social Security numbers, but not bank/payment card or driver's license numbers.

TL;DR Southern Company's Georgia Power and Alabama Power disclose a customer-portal breach exposing partial PII for ~400,000 accounts.

Organisations named here

  • Alabama Power
  • Georgia Power
  • Mississippi Power
  • Southern Company

Technologies named here

  • Southern Company online customer portal
  • Georgia Power customer accounts
  • Alabama Power customer accounts
  • Mississippi Power customer accounts

Techniques named here

  • Unauthorized access to customer portal

Threat actors named here

  • Unauthorized third party