ENGIE Partner's Sales Tool Breach Leaks French Customers' Personal Data
An external marketing and sales tool used by a sales partner of French energy company ENGIE was breached, and French customers' personal data and contract-related information were stolen. The leaked information included names, contact details, customer numbers, contract numbers and energy supply point identifiers, and the number of people affected has not been disclosed. ENGIE notified customers of the incident and warned of impersonation contacts and payment fraud, saying its internal IT systems were not breached and bank details were not among the leaked data.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- ENGIE
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Leak of French customers' personal data and energy contract-related information; number of people affected not disclosed
- Cause / method
- Attacker gained access to an external marketing and sales tool used by a sales partner
- Location
- France
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Timeline
- ENGIE disclosed a personal data leak incident affecting customers.
- A breach of a partner's external marketing and sales tool led to the theft of customers' contact details and contract-related information, and customers were notified and warned about impersonation and payment fraud.
- ENGIE said its internal IT systems were not breached and that bank details were not among the leaked data.
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- ENGIE Customer Data Breach (France): Contact Details and Contract Numbers Exposed via a Partner Sales Tool, No Bank Data, and What Customers Should Do
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