The data of about 10,000 people who own a renewable energy installation was made public unknowingly by Luxembourg’s energy watchdog, the Institut Luxembourgeois de Régulation (ILR) said.
The name, the address of their installation and the characteristics of their energy unit were “temporarily publicly available on the test platform Open Data whose website was only known to informed people,” the watchdog said in a letter sent to affected individuals Monday.
The leak was not caused by external foul play or a hack but rather was an “internal manipulation mistake” that made a working paper containing the data public, said the letter…
