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Southern Water confirms Black Basta stole customer data
The UK water company said data on up to 470,000 customers, plus staff, was stolen in a Black Basta attack disclosed in January.
- Organisation
- Southern Water
- Disclosed
- 13 February 2024
- Affected
- 470,000
- Data
- Names, addresses, dates of birth, bank details
- Attacker
- Black Basta
- Severity
- major
- Region
- UK
- Source
- TechCrunch ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Southern Water confirms Black Basta stole customer data”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 13 Feb 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-02-13-southern-water-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: TechCrunch, https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/uk-utility-giant-southern-water-says-hackers-stole-personal-data-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-customers.
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