Southern Company says hackers accessed utility account information for hundreds of thousands of customers across two subsidiaries.
Southern Company is notifying customers that hackers accessed their utility account information. The breach affects roughly 400,000 accounts at Georgia Power and Alabama Power, two of the company's subsidiaries.
The notification, reported by SecurityWeek, does not specify how the intrusion occurred or which data fields were exposed. Customers are being alerted to the unauthorized access, but no further details about the incident have been released.
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