2023-06-23 12:48:17
Friday, June 23, 2023, 12:48 p.m.
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The director of Euskaltel and MásMovil in the Basque Country, Jon Ander de las Fuentes, today asked his clients for “tranquility” after the cyberattack suffered by the orange telecommunications company and has guaranteed that “no one has been or will be affected »for what happened, alluding to the publication by Russian pirates of thousands of data stolen from the company in May. De las Fuentes has acknowledged that the attack was “quite powerful”, but has defended, in an interview on Radio Euskadi, that Euskaltel’s response and the solution given to this problem “has been optimal because neither the communication service nor the security of our clients and our environment have been affected”. The cybercriminals blackmailed the Basque firm asking for money and, when their demand was not met, they decided to publish 29 gigabytes of the total 3 teras (TB) stolen, although what was published is hosted on the so-called ‘dark web’, which is very difficult to access. .
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“Whoever could be affected is warned and we have put measures in place so that absolutely nothing happens. Some affected companies and their managers have appreciated our reaction, “he added. De las Fuentes has pointed out that cyber attacks are “the great threat that all large companies have had for a few years. There will hardly be a company in the Basque Country that has not experienced this situation. He added that “when you are extorted and do not respond to the demands, noise is made”, but “it is a process under investigation”, since it has been denounced before the Civil Guard.
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For this reason, he has asked people to be calm “because no one has been seen or will be affected by what happened. It is information that is difficult to access” and, furthermore, Euskaltel is “very busy” in this matter. “The attack has been quite powerful but the reaction has been fantastic,” she concluded.
The theft itself affected ten servers out of the more than a thousand that the teleco has and, specifically, it occurred in some housed in Galicia and with a certain age. The vast majority of what was copied referred to the R universe, the Galician teleco that Euskaltel incorporated eight years ago. The information captured from the Derio-based company is of much lower volume than that of the Galician company.
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