Record / data breach · United States · 2026-10-07

Reported data breach at a US organization (Energy)

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Southern Company's Georgia Power and Alabama Power utilities notified customers that hackers accessed their account information affecting approximately 400,000 accounts. The specific details of the breach and the identity of the attacker were not disclosed in the summary.

Organization
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Country · sector
United States · Energy
Dates
occurred – · disclosed 2026-10-07 · published 2026-10-07
Records affected
400,000
Tags
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A data breach sits in these classes of the AI-security landscape. The companies below work on that class of problem. This is a taxonomy, not a claim that any of them would have changed this incident.

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