EnergyAustralia

EnergyAustralia

EnergyAustralia has been targeted by a cyber-attack, with hundreds of customers’ details exposed.

323 residential and small business customers were affected by unauthorized access to their online platform, My Account.

Details including customer names, addresses, email addresses, electricity and gas bills, phone numbers and the first six and last three digits of their credit cards are all included with those accounts.

The company said there was “no evidence” customer details were transferred outside the company’s platform.

Sensitive documents such as driver licences or passports were not stored on the platform.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/21/energyaustralia-latest-to-be-hit-by-cyber-attack-as-details-of-hundreds-of-customers-exposed

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/energyaustralia

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"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "10/2022",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
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                                                         'Addresses',
                                                         'Email addresses',
                                                         'Phone numbers',
                                                         'The first six and '
                                                         'last three digits of '
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                                              'Email addresses',
                                              'Electricity and gas bills',
                                              'Phone numbers',
                                              'The first six and last three '
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                'hundreds of customers’ details exposed. 323 residential and '
                'small business customers were affected by unauthorized access '
                'to their online platform, My Account. Details including '
                'customer names, addresses, email addresses, electricity and '
                'gas bills, phone numbers and the first six and last three '
                'digits of their credit cards are all included with those '
                'accounts. The company said there was “no evidence” customer '
                'details were transferred outside the company’s platform. '
                'Sensitive documents such as driver licences or passports were '
                'not stored on the platform.',
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                                 'Email addresses',
                                 'Electricity and gas bills',
                                 'Phone numbers',
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 'references': [{'source': 'News Article'}],
 'title': 'EnergyAustralia Cyber-Attack',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}
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