Monday, 3 February 2014
Orange Telecommunications, One of the world’s largest mobile operator service suffered massive data breach.
The French multinational telecommunication company announced recently, it was targeted by unknown hackers on 16th January 2014, who allegedly gained access to the accounts of up to 800,000 customers of Orange website.
According to some sources report, the company warned their customers in an email that their Client Area website orange.fr was hacked and user details of 3% customers have been stolen, but the passwords are not affected.
The user detail contains information such as names, mailing address, email, landline and mobile phone numbers.
The company warned, with the user details lost in this attack, hackers can perform phishing attacks, allowing them to steal personal data, including bank account details and passwords by sending emails that look as if they have come from official sources.
Orange has confirmed the data breach, and after the discovery of the attack, they closed "My Account" page from the official Orange website quickly for a few hours as a precaution. Orange also reported that it had found the source of the attack and has filed an official complaint with authorities.
CEO Stéphane Richard must be feeling awkward because as per his speech, protecting client data was “fundamental” for the company. As precaution Orange customers should change the login credentials of the affected accounts.
The French multinational telecommunication company announced recently, it was targeted by unknown hackers on 16th January 2014, who allegedly gained access to the accounts of up to 800,000 customers of Orange website.
The user detail contains information such as names, mailing address, email, landline and mobile phone numbers.
The company warned, with the user details lost in this attack, hackers can perform phishing attacks, allowing them to steal personal data, including bank account details and passwords by sending emails that look as if they have come from official sources.
Orange has confirmed the data breach, and after the discovery of the attack, they closed "My Account" page from the official Orange website quickly for a few hours as a precaution. Orange also reported that it had found the source of the attack and has filed an official complaint with authorities.
CEO Stéphane Richard must be feeling awkward because as per his speech, protecting client data was “fundamental” for the company. As precaution Orange customers should change the login credentials of the affected accounts.
