British Gas has already notified 2,200 customers about the data breach, and data belonging to 1000 of its customers has been exposed online.
Email addresses and account passwords were among the client records that were exposed online; the account information was uploaded to the internet text-sharing platform Pastebin.
The business said that based on their research, they are positive that British Gas is not the source of the information that surfaced online.
Security experts believe that someone may have used customer account information from British Gas to test other data breaches and get access to enterprise accounts.
Source: https://securityaffairs.com/41558/cyber-crime/british-gas-data-breach.html
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