Threat Pulse 62High
Georgia Power says third party accessed customer accounts, including partial SSNs
Severity 6ResolvedreportedEnergyCredentials and personal data

The utility said it recently detected unauthorized third-party activity on some customer accounts exposing names, addresses, phone numbers, emails and the last four digits of Social Security numbers. Bank, card and license numbers were not reachable. Georgia Power is offering a year of credit monitoring and warns of disconnection scam calls.

What to do: Company says access is not ongoing; count not disclosed.

· 31 days ago · undisclosed number of Georgia Power customers · CBS News Atlanta
SourcesCBS News Atlanta
Why this score

Undisclosed count at a 2.7 million customer utility (impact 2), completed access (exploitability 2), energy as the primary target (criticality 2).

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