At the end of July, Orange Belgium detected a cyberattack on one of its IT systems, resulting in unauthorised access to certain data from 850,000 customer accounts.
No critical data was compromised: no passwords, email addresses, bank or financial details were hacked. However, the hacker gained access to one of our IT systems containing the following data: surname, first name, telephone number, SIM card number, PUK code, tariff plan. As soon as the incident was detected, our teams blocked access to the affected system and tightened our security measures.
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Source: Orange Belgium
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