whbos posted at 12:15AM Tue, 30 January 2018 - #4323302

That's what they say, but they probably don't know and may not know for several years. So what do they do? Sell out to somebody else. Why should we trust them? I don't. So many companies have done the same thing under the same circumstances.

I think they now know what occurred and how it happened. That's why they hired a company from outside their own to investigate.

I'm not certain I understand what you mean by saying they "sold out" to someone else. E-ON was purchased by Bentley in 2015, wasn't it? Three full years prior to learning of an ongoing criminal activity of which they/we have been unknowing victims for five years.

Which companies have done the same thing under the same circumstances? Would you be able to cite examples?

I am not an E-ON fanboy or apologist. I'm just trying to be reasonable during a difficult period. I do believe things could have been handled differently as far as informing customers. Perhaps more information could not have been passed-along, however, without compromising their investigation. I'm also certain their corporate leadership did not want anything but uniform and official statements to be made regarding the situation. It was all an annoyance to me, too, but a small one in the grand scheme of things. I'm quite certain a fuller investigation will be conducted by law enforcement authorities who are no doubt eager to learn the source of the incursion into E-ON's computer systems. We may never know the outcome of that, but I'm certain such an investigation will occur.