CenterPoint Energy has confirmed suffering a cyberattack and data theft, days after a criminal advertised the stolen files on an underground hacking forum.
CenterPoint Energy is a large US energy utility company that delivers electricity and natural gas to homes and businesses. It employs roughly 8,800 people and operates around $48.3 billion in assets, as of June 2026.
Recently, a threat actor posted a new thread on a dark web forum, saying they stole 7.49 million CenterPoint files from a poorly secured API. They said that the data included customer names and contact details, billing data, move-in dates, driver’s license information, and the last four digits of Social Security numbers (SSN).
Read more…
Source: TechRadar News
Sign up for the Cyber Security Review Newsletter
The latest cyber security news and insights delivered right to your inbox
Related:
- Singapore’s Largest Healthcare Group Hacked, 1.5 Million Patient Records Stolen
July 20, 2018
Singapore’s largest healthcare group, SingHealth, has suffered a massive data breach that allowed hackers to snatch personal information on 1.5 million patients who visited SingHealth clinics between May 2015 and July 2018. SingHealth is the largest healthcare group in Singapore with 2 tertiary hospitals, 5 national specialty , and eight polyclinics. According to an advisory released by Singapore’s Ministry ...
- Timehop breach hits 21 million users due to a lack of 2FA on cloud services
July 9, 2018
Timehop, a service that surfaces a user’s past social media content, has revealed a security breach that hit the company on July 4, and resulted in a database of 21 million users hit. As a result, the company has voided all social media authorisation tokens it held, and is alerting its users. Around 4.7 million phone numbers were breached, ...
- Fortnum & Mason data breach: 23,000 customers’ details accessed
July 3, 2018
The data of thousands of Fortnum & Mason customers, including addresses and contact phone numbers, has been accessed after a breach on a form on its website. The 310-year-old food shop, known as the “Queen’s grocer”, has become the latest company to fall victim to an attack. About 23,000 people who filled out a survey or took ...
- Adidas US breach may have exposed millions of customers’ personal info
June 29, 2018
Adidas warned late on Thursday that hackers may have lifted customer data from its US website. The sportswear maker said personal data, including contact information (addresses and email addresses), and encrypted passwords may have fallen into the hands of criminals, but was able to reassure customers that neither financial nor fitness information was at risk. Read more… Source: The Register
- Dixons Carphone prepare for backlash following data breach
June 21, 2018
Firm faces possible fine under GDPR after data breach went undetected Dixons Carphone faces further woes as its full-year earnings were hit, as it battle against the backlash of a serious cyber breach revealed last week. Falling gross profits and a plummeting share price were expected as the investigation continues into the data breach that compromised ...
- Yahoo fined £250,000 by UK watchdog over data breach
June 13, 2018
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Yahoo £250,000 over a data breach which occurred in 2014. The data breach resulted in the theft of at least 500 million records. It is believed that names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords, and some “encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers” were compromised. Yahoo has ...