CenterPoint Energy Breach Hits 1 Million Texans

CenterPoint Energy notified Texan authorities that over 1 million individuals had personal information compromised in a data breach. The utility confirmed 1,062,060 state residents were affected, though it has not sent notification letters. A hacker previously boasted of obtaining nearly 7.5 million records and released a 2.5-gigabyte archive containing approximately 3 million phone numbers on September 12.