Love Electric Breach: 877,000 Driver Records Offered for $600
A forum seller is offering 877,000 driver records from UK EV salary-sacrifice broker Love Electric for $600; researchers found the sample looks authentic.
A seller named seraphims advertised 877,000 records from Love Electric Financial Services, an Edinburgh-based FCA-regulated EV salary sacrifice broker, for $600 in cryptocurrency. Ransomnews analysts verified a 999-row SQL Server export containing names, addresses, National Insurance numbers, and driving licence numbers, with internal relationships and licence-format checks consistent with genuine production data. The full record count remains unverified, and the company had not commented at publication; the breach highlights risks from third-party payroll-adjacent providers.
- 877,000 records offered for $600; count not independently verified
- 999-row sample includes NI numbers, licence numbers, and consent flags
- Licence-number structure matched record fields in 98% of checks
- Salary sacrifice data creates identity-theft exposure via a broker
- Victims
- Love Electric
- Organizations
- Ransomnews
- Countries
- United Kingdom
From the original article
7 min read at securityaffairs.com
Love Electric’s alleged data breach exposes sensitive driver data and highlights the identity risks created by third-party salary sacrifice providers. A seller on an English-language data-breach forum claimed on August 26 that they had obtained the driver database of Love Electric, a UK broker that runs electric-vehicle salary sacrifice schemes.
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