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PowerGen provides staff with cheap home PCs
News Electricity company PowerGen is to spend £2m on providing its staff in the UK with low-cost home computers and Internet access. The Clicks@Home initiative will enable PowerGen's 5,000-plus workforce to receive a Hewlett Packard PC and Internet...
[June 26, 2001, 16:11]
Powergen coughs up £50 and an apology
News Shamed utility giant Powergen is offering £50 compensation to those hit by the security breach that potentially hit 7,000 users. Mike Wagner, Powergen's retail managing director apologised for the incident, and claimed that new security procedures...
[July 19, 2000, 17:23]
Powergen's lax security condemned
News In what has been described as a gross breach of consumer confidence, consumer watchdogs condemned lax security at British utility service Powergen Wednesday, for exposing the credit details of over 7,000 customers on its Web site.
[July 19, 2000, 9:21]
Powergen Individualizes Service Offerings Using Improved View of Customer Data
White Papers Part of E.ON, the world's largest private-sector power and gas energy company, Powergen is one of the United Kingdom's largest energy suppliers, with around 6 million electricity and gas customers. Powergen introduced Oracle Database 10g to provide...
[December 14, 2006, 0:00]
Nearly half Net users put off by security fears
News The statistic follows a spate of high profile Web attacks or security blunders from high profile names including Powergen and BT. In July, utilities firm Powergen was forced to ask thousands of its customers to cancel credit cards after a Web site...
[October 11, 2000, 9:00]
Fear and confusion handicaps UK e-commerce
News Report author Alison Hopkins believes the recent spate of security blunders by big name organisations like Powergen and Barclays have had a negative impact on consumer confidence. If a big national company like Powergen can't get it right, people...
[August 3, 2000, 13:23]
ZDNet's straw poll - online security fears
News More worrying for consumers is the series of security breaches in online banks and commercial Web sites including the recent Powergen debacle. Wyatt believes that the absence of accountability is at odds with Britain's attempts to lead the world in...
[July 21, 2000, 16:02]
Roundup: E-Britain on crumbling foundations
News Wed, 19 Jul More than 7,000 Powergen customers advised to cancel their credit cards following one of the biggest online security breaches in the UK so far Thu, 20 Jul In the wake of Powergen's security scare, experts argue not enough is being done...
[July 20, 2000, 17:00]
Roundup: UK online banking security crisis
News Sun, 23rd Jul 2000 The mistakes that led to the bank details of 2500 customers of gas and electricity supplier PowerGen being readily accessible from the Web are commonplace, according to industry experts.
[August 11, 2000, 17:00]
Laws protecting consumers online need revision
News Observers have called for a review of UK laws that protect consumers from the sort of security blunders that saw thousands of Powergen customers' credit card details published on the Internet this week.
[July 20, 2000, 14:56]
DO NOT RING THE ABOVE FREEPHONE NUMBER IT IS NOT POWERGENS
Talkback the freephone number 0800 0157755 will get you through to a loft ladder company, NOT powergen
[December 11, 2007, 15:39]
Barclays breach rattles consumer trust
News Consumer watchdogs and technical experts agree that security breaches such as that experienced by the online division of Barclays bank Monday and the recent Powergen fiasco are chipping away at the UK's confidence in Internet security.
[August 2, 2000, 8:11]
Lazy employees cost businesses dear over PC usage
Talkback The blocks came from Powergen-I have not seen them on general sale. My onsite computers are now powered via a pwer dis block which works so that when the PC is put to hibernate ALL ancillary units and the PCs are turned off.
[October 9, 2006, 15:21]
Halifax offers online fraud and hacking reassurance
News The new services follow a string of recent Internet security incidents at major UK businesses including Powergen and Barclays. The Halifax bank has responded to growing concerns over online security Monday by offering antifraud measures and...
[August 29, 2000, 14:49]
Hacking could cost Spanish Big Brother $4m
News UK companies PowerGen and Barclays were recently held responsible for two of the biggest online security breaches in the UK so far. The Spanish version of Big Brother could be fined up to $4m after a hacker broke into its server and posted personal...
[August 25, 2000, 15:24]
Startup Spotlight: uSwitch.com gives you the power
News Most utility companies seem to have signed up with uSwitch, although it's not possible to change to Powergen, for example. ZDNet readers looking to save money by changing their electricity or gas provider, or by moving to a different mobile network...
[February 1, 2001, 16:20]
Internet banks ignoring security, says report
News In July Powergen accidentally exposed thousands of customers' credit card details and was forced to ask customers to cancel their cards. Internet banks and e-commerce firms care more about the competition than Internet security according to a...
[October 4, 2000, 10:28]
Disposable numbers fight online security fears
News Last month, utility firm Powergen accidentally exposed many of its customer's credit card numbers and Barclays Bank was similarly troubled when a number of its online accounts were accessed without authorisation.
[September 11, 2000, 10:01]
Caught in the GoDaddy red tape
Blog Comment Funny how the account didn't need to be in my wife's name for them to take over my Powergen account which was in my name. Had a similar situation with my utilities. An Npower salesman pretended to come and read our meter (I was at work).
[June 27, 2008, 11:13]
Half UK's e-commerce revenue lost to fear
News Stevens agreed that Powergen's security blunder, revealed Wednesday, will have had a damaging and lasting effect on e-commerce growth in Britain. Concerns over consumer confidence in eBritain were confirmed Thursday with IDC speculating that...
[July 20, 2000, 17:52]
