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CenterPoint Energy Data Breach Impacts 1 Million Texans
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CenterPoint Energy Data Breach Impacts 1 Million Texans

CenterPoint Energy told the Texas Attorney General that 1,062,060 state residents had names, addresses, Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers compromised. The breach surfaced after a hacker advertised ~7.5 million records on a cybercrime forum and later posted a 2.5 GB archive on September 12 with ~3 million phone numbers; the company then filed with the SEC. Impact in Indiana, Minnesota and Ohio remains unclear, and notification letters apparently haven't gone out.

TL;DR CenterPoint Energy breach exposes PII (incl. SSNs) of 1.06M Texans after a hacker leaked data on a cybercrime forum.

Organisations named here

  • CenterPoint Energy
  • SEC
  • Texas Attorney General