Telecom giant Orange warns of disruption amid ongoing cyberattack


Orange, a French telecommunications giant and one of the largest phone providers in the world, announced on Monday that it was the victim of an unspecified cyberattack.

In the announcement, the company said that it detected a cyberattack “on one of its information systems” on July 25, and that it proceeded to “isolate potentially affected services and minimize any impact.” Orange serves 291 million customers worldwide, across 26 different countries, and has 127,000 employees, according to the company.

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