Orange announced a massive hacking of personal data

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Orange announced a massive hacking of personal data -

on 6 May, the French Telecom operator orange has admitted hacking another customer and personal data of prospects, which affected 1.3 million people. This happened only three months after a previous case that had affected about 800,000 of them.

"A limited amount of personal information about customers and prospects" were copied during an intrusion into the operator's systems was detected on April 18th: names, e -mail address when are available, but also the fixed and mobile telephone numbers, mobile operators and Internet and birth date as announced by the orange group emails and other warnings about possible phishing attacks using these data

One can ask about the delay of almost three weeks Orange took to talk about this new case of piracy for people who may be victims. One of Orange spokesman justified the operator's share, the need to quantify the stolen data, "lock the technical network" and "ensure that the fault does not exist," then "deduplicate lists "which often contain several times the same names.

last February, Orange had already admitted a theft of personal data from 800,000 of its Internet customers. In November 2013, its CEO, Stéphane Richard, tried to reassure its customers by signing a solemn commitment to protect their personal data charter.

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