Victim of a cyber attack, Bouygues Telecom let out data from more than 6 million customer accounts last week. The most extreme caution is therefore essential if you receive a slightly shady SMS from the operator … except when it is really an SMS of the operator!
No need to have critical data on hand as a bank card number to wreak havoc. It is often more banal information, such as names, first names, addresses, or even civil status to orchestrate well -crafted phishing campaigns. It is precisely this kind of data that Bouygues Telecom let go a few days ago during a cyber attack (which also attacked it, which is more problematic).
It looks like phishing, it smells of phishing … But it’s not phishing!
With this kind of information, crooks therefore have the possibility of sending messages to millions of Bouygues customers to try to scam them. Messages usurping the brand can thus ask their victims to go to a phony site to enter very confidential information in order to extract money from them.
Mistrust is therefore to put a ladle SMS upon receipt, as was the case with Pauloheaven on social networks. Fortunately, the message itself seems so little credible that no one would believe that it was sent by Bouygues Telecom : There are spelling mistakes and the URL is very suspicious, typical of these fraudulent sites that try to extract banking information. This has enough to ring the alarm!
Except that it is an SMS authentically sent by the operator to his client! URL bouyguestelecom2.my.site.com is indeed used by the company to communicate with its users as part of the follow-up of an appointment for a fiber connection, as explains Bouygues Telecom to UniversFreebox. « The link mentioned in the SMS makes it possible to follow the technician’s progress to the meeting point. According to the tests we have carried out, it works as soon as it is not truncated Adds the group.
The procedure on the famous website does not require, ” and at no time “, Communication of personal information. For customers who receive this message without having scheduled an appointment with a fiber technician, the FAI invites you to contact customer support.
In the light of the recent cyber attack, Bouygues Telecom would certainly be well advised to review the way in which he communicates with his users.
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Source :
UniversFreebox
