Black day for the personal data of French people: yesterday, more than 6 million customer accounts were stolen by hackers, and some contained sensitive documents.
After SFR and Free almost a year ago, Bouygues Telecom’s turn to be the target of large -scale hacking. On Wednesday, the French operator warned its customers affected that some 6.4 million accounts had been compromised, and that was among them in particular their IBAN number, intended for bank samples. The next day, the Air France/KLM group announced, without quantifying it, only an access ” fraudulent To customer data had also taken place.
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The details of the operations are still vague. At Bouygues, the operator is content to write that the attack is beautiful is well finished, and ” that a complaint was filed with the judicial authorities ». On its site, and with affected customers and customers, Bouygues Telecom indicates that ” Banking card numbers and Bouygues’ accounts are not impacted ». On the other hand, Iban identifiers are part of the lacin of the pirates. A very delicate situation, to which the operator alerts: ” A person who holds an IBAN number could not issue a transfer without your agreement, but for the samples (…), one cannot exclude that a fraudster succeeds in carrying out such an operation by pretending to you. »
At Air France, piracy seems to have been, sadly, more commonplace. According to information from BFM Tech, only names, first names, email addresses, telephone numbers and Flying Blue account number (the Air France loyalty program) have been disclosed, without a figure allowing to gauge the extent of the hacking be shared by the airline.
But there are no “unimportant data” in such a case. The pirates exchange on the Dark Web the fruit of their harvest and, by crossing the data obtained during different hacks, can actually set up improvement identity or phishing campaigns.
At Bouygues Telecom as at Air France, customers and customers whose data would have been stolen during hacks must have been warned via an email in the days that followed the hacking. We can estimate that, if you have not received anything to date, you have passed between the meshes of the net.
In the event that your data has been hacked, Bouygues Telecom has set up a site listing various tips to follow to protect its online identity. Regarding the thorny subject of stolen iban, the operator recalls that ” Banking regulations provide that you can oppose for 13 months to all samples taken without your agreement from your bank account », And invites his customers to be particularly vigilant about their banking movements in the coming months.
At the end of July, Orange announced that it had managed to thwart a cyber attack concerning in particular its professional customers.