British Gas denies responsibility for 2,200 user accounts posted online

Email addresses and passwords leaked to Pastebin did not come from within the company, firm says

British Gas has emailed more than 2,000 of its customers to warn them that their email addresses and passwords to their British Gas accounts were posted online.

In the email, the company told customers that its systems were secure, and that the data had not come from British Gas. It did not explain where the information did come from.