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. The breach happened in 2016 and, until this week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had declined to identify the utility that it fined $2.7 million earlier this year, a small amount compared with a potential fine of as much as $140 million.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 24, 2018 21:24 UTC