Due to a data breach, personal and financial information for around 8,000 people may have been compromised as the energy supplier has urged those affected to cancel their cards
Thousands of Electric Ireland customers have been told to cancel their credit and debit cards after a data breach.
It is understood that an individual at a call centre used by Electric Ireland gained access to the financial and other details of 8,000 customers of the energy supplier.The 8,000 people whose details were hacked were written to this week and told about the breach.And other personal details including their name and address, their email, phone number, date of birth and bank account details may also have ended up in the wrong hands.
They were also told to “review your relevant bank account and credit card statements since October 2021, to identify if there is any suspicious activity which may indicate that your account has been compromised and subject to fraud”. "This issue is currently under investigation and Electric Ireland is liaising with An Garda Síochána and the Data Protection Commissioner, and as such the details of this case must remain confidential.
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