Orange, a French telecom giant and one of the world’s largest phone providers, Announced On Monday, it was a victim of an unspecified cyber attack.
In the announcement, the company stated that it discovered “a cyber attack on one of its information systems” on 25 July, and it “proceeded to separately separate the affected services and to reduce any effect.”
According to the translation of the statement, to separate the affected systems, Orange added, some of the company’s platforms as well as the business customers and some public sector services caused interruption in France. The announcement states that the solution that the company is implementing will gradually restore services by Wednesday, and “there is no evidence to suggest that any internal or customer data has been abolished.”
Orange did not respond to Techcrunch’s request for comments, which included questions about the nature of the cyber attack, and the company has technical means to detect any data exfIs.
The company said in the announcement that it was attractive and informing the affected customers, and has filed a complaint with “relevant officers” without providing specificity. Companies in Europe who are subject to GDPR need to inform their local data protection officers within three days of a suspected data violation of data security rules.
Orange 26 various countries serve 291 million customers worldwide, and there are 127,000 employees, According to the company,
