- Jan 8, 2011
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- http://rt.com/news/157460-france-telecom-orange-hack/
Personal data of 1.3 million clients of the French telecommunications corporation Orange have been stolen. The hack includes mobile and land phone numbers, dates of birth and email addresses of the company's clients.
Orange says the incident was detected over two weeks ago, on April 18. The company did not rush to announce the breach, in order to analyze the scale of the snatched data and work on the security gaps that allowed the information to be stolen.
"The data recovered could be used to contact those concerned by email, SMS or by phone, particularly for phishing purposes," the group warns in a statement.
This means the missing data could be used to contact affected people by email, text messages or by phone - in order to get access to even more sensitive information such as passwords and bank card details. Most commonly, “phishing" involves fake emails from apparently reputable and trustworthy companies.
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Orange says the incident was detected over two weeks ago, on April 18. The company did not rush to announce the breach, in order to analyze the scale of the snatched data and work on the security gaps that allowed the information to be stolen.
"The data recovered could be used to contact those concerned by email, SMS or by phone, particularly for phishing purposes," the group warns in a statement.
This means the missing data could be used to contact affected people by email, text messages or by phone - in order to get access to even more sensitive information such as passwords and bank card details. Most commonly, “phishing" involves fake emails from apparently reputable and trustworthy companies.
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