The leading French telecommunications company Orange suffered the second major infringement με διαρροές δεδομένων σε ένα διάστημα τριών μηνών. Η εταιρεία ανακοίνωσε ότι οι hackers απέσπασαν προσωπικά data of its 1,3 million customers.
Such as says the company hackers have been able to obtain personal information from both current and future customers. These include name, surname, email addresses, mobile and fixed phone numbers, birthdays, and their mobile brands.
"The data stolen by the hackers could be used to contact our customers (by e-mails, SMS, or even by phone) and extract sensitive data from them using techniques Phishing,” warned the company said in a statement.
The incident was detected by the company at 18 April, but it waited until today to inform its customers to determine its full extent and to ensure that the security gaps used by the hackers have been repaired.
Naturally, the time span from the discovery of leakage to informing the stakeholders is quite large. This is something the Authorities should investigate as Orange customers remained at risk even though the company knew about the breach around 20 days.
At this time, attackers who know the names of the company's clients could have made thousands of phishing attacks.
As we mentioned above, this is not the first breach at Orange. In February, the company disclosed a breach better safetys, in which 800.000 users' emails, passwords, addresses and phone numbers were leaked.
