People's Energy GDPR Breach

jojoBOB

QrizB said:

la531983 said:

How have you contacted a company that no longer exists?

People's Energy still exists. It's in administration.

find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09844617

Correct, it's the administrators who contacted me.

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jojoBOB said:

MrX said:

The email is from the Adminstrators and is legitimate. You can check what data was leaked by entering your email in haveibeenpwned.com/

For me this shows nearly all of my data was leaked and so I have submitted a claim as I am now more vulnerable to cybercrime and identity theft etc.

But it's up to you. If you're happy that nothing was leaked or what was can't affect you then no need to claim.

P.S. If you follow the link to the portal and enter the details they provide then you'll see it contains all your info anyway so it's not phishing for anything - it just wants to know if you want to make a claim.

Thanks for the reply.  I did get as far as filling in the details but bottled it when it started to ask how much I'm claiming.  I too entered my details into haveibeenpwned & I have indeed had my data leaked.  Did you leave the claim amount blank?

There is a big clue in the post above:

You need to prove a financial loss from the GPDR breach which is unlikely. 

You have to demonstrate that, for example, someone has drained your Bank account. They will not offering compensation just because your data was leaked.

Edit: I would also assume that any claims would be categorised as unsecured creditors. The Administrators cannot pay out what they haven’t got. That is, you would end up with pennies in the £.