{"id":76410,"date":"2023-06-28T08:45:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T22:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=76410"},"modified":"2023-06-28T08:45:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T22:15:28","slug":"lg-ssg-data-breach-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/lg-ssg-data-breach-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"LG and Solar Service Guys Respond to Data Breach Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/email-key.jpg\" alt=\"email send key\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/email-key.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/email-key-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/email-key-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/email-key-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LG Energy Solution Australia has moved to reassure resellers caught up in its long-running battery recall that their data has not been subject to a data breach.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The issue ignited, then blew up on Facebook when resellers began receiving marketing emails in error, and interpreted this as meaning their personal information had been either been handed to a third party without permission, or was subject to some kind of data breach.<\/p>\n<p>The two companies involved, LG Energy Solution Australia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/installer-review\/solar-service-guys\/\">Solar Service Guys<\/a>, assured SolarQuotes that neither privacy nor security were breached.<\/p>\n<p>LG Energy Solution Australia\u2019s managing director Philip Crotty explained to SolarQuotes that the emails came from Solar Service Guys (SSG). Since SSG is LG Energy Solution\u2019s partner for managing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/reviews\/lg-chem-review.html\">LG battery<\/a> recall, they have a legitimate reason for holding customer information \u2013 so there\u2019s no privacy breach.<\/p>\n<p>As for a security breach, Crotty said SSG told him the emails weren\u2019t deliberate spam, but rather sent in error.<\/p>\n<p>Crotty told SolarQuotes he holds Solar Service Guys in high regard, and is satisfied both with its explanation of how the messages were sent, and with SSG\u2019s assurance that it won\u2019t happen again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are satisfied with the explanation that this was an error and the steps that have been taken to ensure it is not repeated\u201d, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Peter Matthews, SSG\u2019s managing director, told SolarQuotes the problem arose after an update to the company\u2019s CRM system.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen we sent the messages, the CRM pulled data from the wrong place,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The messages the resellers interpreted as spam were meant to be sent only to people who had requested information from SSG\u2019s website form.<\/p>\n<p>However, the error \u2013 apparently an SQL query corrupted during the software upgrade \u2013 meant a number of resellers were included in the mailout.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cResellers that received the messages should not have\u201d, Matthews told SolarQuotes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>SSG has called in an IT auditor to make sure the error is not repeated, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The email blunder is the latest hiccup in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/lg-battery-recall-may-23\/\">LG battery recall saga<\/a> which started in 2020, and continues to this day.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an LG, SolaX, Opal Storage, Redback, Red Earth, Eguana or VARTA Pulse battery, installed before 2019 &#8211; please call 1300 677 273 to check if it is subject to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.productsafety.gov.au\/recalls\/lg-energy-solution-australia-pty-ltd-formerly-lg-chem-australia-pty-ltd-\u2014-ess-home-energy-storage-system-batteries\">the recall<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LG Energy Solution Australia has moved to reassure resellers caught up in its long-running battery recall that their data has not been subject to a data breach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":76415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LG and Solar Service Guys Respond to Data Breach Allegations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"LG Energy Solution Australia and Solar Service Guys reassure vendors following an email mishap in the midst of the LG battery recall.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/lg-ssg-data-breach-allegations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LG and Solar Service Guys Respond to Data Breach Allegations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LG Energy Solution Australia and Solar Service Guys reassure vendors following an email mishap in the midst of the LG battery recall.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/lg-ssg-data-breach-allegations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-06-27T22:15:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/email-key.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"628\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Richard Chirgwin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/lg-ssg-data-breach-allegations\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/lg-ssg-data-breach-allegations\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Richard Chirgwin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d2e4d6f75c9033945224b9de834d9be6\"},\"headline\":\"LG and Solar Service Guys Respond to Data Breach Allegations\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-06-27T22:15:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/lg-ssg-data-breach-allegations\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":394,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/lg-ssg-data-breach-allegations\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/email-key.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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