2024-10-26 20:30:00
Are you a free customer? So it is quite possible that some of your personal data has been stolen. The French telephone operator admitted to having been “the victim of a cyber attack against a management tool” which resulted in “unauthorized access to part of the personal data associated with the accounts of some subscribers”.
The second French telephone operator, however, reassures, assuring that during this attack no password, no bank card, no email, SMS or voice message was stolen. The quality of the service has not decreased either, assures Free, who has filed a complaint. “We urge you to be extremely vigilant about the risk of fraudulent emails, texts or calls. Keep in mind that our consultants will never ask you for your password verbally”, the operator reminded its subscribers in a message sent on the night between Friday and Saturday.
As required by law, the National Commission for IT and Freedoms (CNIL) and the National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (Anssi) were informed. “All necessary measures were immediately taken to put an end to this attack and strengthen the protection of our information systems. »
SFR had already toasted
On September 19, another operator, SFR, was subject to a leak of its customers’ data, including banking details, following what it described as “a security incident involving an order management tool of its customers”. clients”.
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