Data Breach Confirmed After Australian Energy Giant Origin Is Hacked
A hacker claims to have stolen the information of 2 million Origin Energy customers and is threatening to leak it. The post Data Breach Confirmed After Australian Energy Giant Origin Is Hacked appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Australia’s Origin Energy Limited has confirmed suffering a data breach, and a hacker claims to have accessed the records of millions of customers.
Headquartered in Sydney, Origin Energy is one of Australia’s largest electricity and gas retailers while also engaging in power generation, natural gas exploration and production, and renewable energy initiatives.
On July 22, the company said it had launched an investigation into a potential cybersecurity incident involving access to customer information.
Source: https://www.securityweek.com/data-breach-confirmed-after-australian-energy-giant-origin-is-hacked/
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