Dutch telephone firm Odido has confirmed an information breach affected hundreds of thousands of its clients.
The corporate stated in a statement Thursday that unidentified hackers gained entry to its buyer contact system and covertly downloaded reams of buyer info. A spokesperson for Odido informed local Dutch media that the breach impacts greater than 6.2 million clients, or a couple of third of the nation’s inhabitants.
The stolen information consists of buyer names, telephone numbers, postal and e-mail addresses, dates of beginning, checking account numbers (IBAN), and particulars of consumers’ government-issued IDs, resembling passport or driver’s license numbers and dates of validity.
The corporate stated former clients who had service inside the previous two years may be affected.
Odido stated the information didn’t embody buyer name information, location information, billing info, or picture scans of presidency IDs. The info doesn’t have an effect on enterprise clients, the corporate stated.
The breach impacts clients of each Odido and its subsidiary Ben NL. Each firms stated that their telephone, web, and tv operations have been unaffected by the breach.
That is the newest in a collection of knowledge thefts concentrating on telephone and telecommunication giants lately, as governments and financially motivated hackers proceed to hunt extremely confidential info that telcos have on their clients.
Earlier this week, the Singaporean authorities confirmed {that a} China-related hacking group had beforehand damaged into 4 of the nation’s prime telephone giants as a part of a surveillance operation, however didn’t entry clients’ private info.
All of the whereas, hackers related to the China-backed menace group referred to as Salt Hurricane have hacked a whole bunch of telephone firms all over the world, together with in Canada, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the US, as a part of an ongoing espionage marketing campaign geared toward spying on senior authorities officers and diplomats.
