Georgia Power portal breach exposes customer data across three utilities

Georgia Power disclosed a customer-portal breach affecting approximately 300,000 of its customers and another 100,000 customers of Alabama Power and Mississippi Power, The Tech Edvocate reports. All three utilities are Southern Company subsidiaries. Exposed information included names, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and the last four digits of Social Security numbers. The intrusion did not involve bank accounts or credit card numbers. The utilities are offering affected customers free credit monitoring.