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MalwareEnergy & UtilitiesUtilitiesRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedFinancial accountGovernment IDCredentialsMediumContained

DIRECT ENERGY, LP

bd_bd7e340089a059a6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 3, 2020

Filed

Jan 21, 2021

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for DIRECT ENERGY, LP2 incidents on file

Direct Energy LP notified customers of a ransomware attack on a third-party data analytics vendor on November 3, 2020. Unauthorized parties accessed and extracted client files containing customer information, potentially including bank account numbers, credit card data, Social Security numbers, and credentials. The vendor did not pay the ransom. Direct Energy suspended activity with the vendor, notified law enforcement and card networks, and offered two years of identity monitoring.

California clockDiscovered Nov 3, 2020Notified Dec 2, 202029d CA 60-day OK11 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 79 days

Nov 3, 2020

Begins

Nov 3, 2020

Discovered

Jan 21, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Show 2 more filingsup to 386d gap

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
Illinois State AGJan 1 · first
California State AG+386d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Jan 21 (CA) — a 386-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.