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Pacific Gas and Electric

Pacific Gas and Electric

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an investor-owned utility (IOU) with publicly traded stock that is headquartered in the Pacific Gas & Electric Building in San Francisco. PG&E provides natural gas and electricity to most of the northern two-thirds of California, from Bakersfield almost to the Oregon border which represents 5.2 million households. PG&E is overseen by the California Public Utilities Commission. UpGuard continuously monitors the security posture of Pacific Gas and Electric using open-source, commercial, and proprietary threat intelligence feeds. Our analysis is centered on objective, externally verifiable information.
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Pacific Gas and Electric Vendor Risk Report

This vendor risk report is based on UpGuard’s continuous monitoring of Pacific Gas and Electric's security posture using open-source, commercial, and proprietary threat intelligence feeds. The results are summarized into a security rating based on the analysis of hundreds of individual checks across five risk categories: website security, email security, phishing & malware, brand & reputation risk, and network security.

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Pacific Gas and Electric Data Breaches, Cybersecurity Incidents and News

Security incidents, news, and data leaks relating to Pacific Gas and Electric.
Pacific Gas and Electric Database Exposed
MacKeeper • May 30, 2016

Pacific Gas and Electric Database Exposed

Last week I discovered a data breach involving Pacific Gas and Electric, a very large electric utility company in California. The publicly exposed database appeared to be PG&E’s asset management system. Among other things, it contained details for over 47,000 PG&E computers, virtual machines, servers, and other devices. All of it completely unprotected. No username or password required for viewing.
US Power Company Fined $US2.7 Million Over Security Flaws Impacting 'Critical Assets'
Gizmodo • Mar 18, 2018

US Power Company Fined $US2.7 Million Over Security Flaws Impacting 'Critical Assets'

An American power company has reached a settlement to pay an unprecedented $US2.7 ($3) million penalty over significant security oversights that could have allowed hackers to gain remote access to the power provider's systems.
PG&E Fined $2.7M by Feds for Third Party's Data Breach
Power Engineering • Aug 28, 2018

PG&E Fined $2.7M by Feds for Third Party's Data Breach

Numerous news outlets and websites, citing the Wall Street Journal and other reports, are identifying Pacific Gas & Electric as the utility which was fined by federal regulators for a inadvertent data breach which caused PG&E to lose control of confidential information put online for more than two months.
PG&E Identified as Utility That Lost Control of Confidential Information
The Wall Street Journal • Aug 24, 2018

PG&E Identified as Utility That Lost Control of Confidential Information

San Francisco-based PG&E Corp. was identified Friday as the large utility that authorities had fined in May for losing control of a database with confidential information about its systems and leaving it exposed on the internet for 70 days.

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