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Daily Cyber News: CenterPoint confirms customer data theft from an external-facing system

CenterPoint Energy has confirmed that an unauthorized party stole personal information relating to some customers through an external-facing system. An attacker claimed to have taken 7.49 million records, but CenterPoint hasn’t confirmed that number or the specific types of data involved. The company says its electric and natural gas services weren’t disrupted, and the investigation is still active.

Key context: The immediate consequence is a growing customer-trust and legal problem, even though physical services continued normally.

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