When we talk about home security related to the Internet, we normally refer to everything that is under our control and in an ecosystem in which the router is the gateway. But there are elements that are beyond our power and that we entrust to companies that sometimes fail in their vigilance.
And that is what has happened to e-distribution, which if it doesn’t sound familiar to you, is one of the companies in charge of bringing Endesa’s electricity to its customers’ homes. A company that has seen how your clients’ data has been leaked which are now being auctioned to the highest bidder.
Data for everyone
On this occasion the one affected by the data leak has been e-distribution. As they announce on their website, it is a company that supplies electricity in 24 Spanish provinces in 8 Autonomous Communities (Andalusia, Aragon, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Catalonia, Extremadura, Castilla y León and Galicia) and in the Autonomous City of Ceuta. In figures, it is a territory with a total area of 195,488 km2, thus supplying a population of more than 21 million inhabitants.
Well, data from a good part of these users has been leaked and the piracy forum BreachForums publishes a sample of some data that can be used by future buyers to be used in phishing campaigns or to create false commercial campaigns.
Among the leaked data, from more than 1,800 clients, there appear, for example, the names and surnames of the owner, national identity document, the address of the supply address, characteristics of the supply, mobile telephone number and up to the CUPS code (Universal Supply Point Code) and that serves to identify each home or business that receives energy.
E-distribucion is the company in charge of maintaining the electrical network and the transportation of energy to the user’s homebut not marketing to the end customer.
The information is available, upon payment, for those users and groups who are friends of what is illegal who want to take advantage of them, so from now on users who have been affected may receive calls or SMS trying to impersonate the company, so be very careful.
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Cover image | Tima Miroshnichenko
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