Dutch cellphone firm Odido has confirmed a data breach affected tens of millions of its prospects.
The corporate stated in a press release Thursday that unidentified hackers gained entry to its buyer contact system and covertly downloaded reams of buyer data. A spokesperson for Odido instructed native Dutch media that the breach impacts greater than 6.2 million prospects, or a couple of third of the nation’s inhabitants.
The stolen knowledge contains buyer names, cellphone numbers, postal and e mail addresses, dates of delivery, checking account numbers (IBAN), and particulars of shoppers’ government-issued IDs, reminiscent of passport or driver’s license numbers and dates of validity.
The corporate stated former prospects who had service inside the previous two years might also be affected.
Odido stated the info didn’t embrace buyer name information, location knowledge, billing data, or picture scans of presidency IDs. The info doesn’t have an effect on enterprise prospects, the corporate stated.
The breach impacts prospects of each Odido and its subsidiary Ben NL. Each firms stated that their cellphone, web, and tv operations had been unaffected by the breach.
That is the newest in a sequence of knowledge thefts concentrating on cellphone and telecommunication giants lately, as governments and financially motivated hackers proceed to hunt extremely confidential data that telcos have on their prospects.
Earlier this week, the Singaporean authorities confirmed {that a} China-related hacking group had beforehand damaged into 4 of the nation’s prime cellphone giants as a part of a surveillance operation, however didn’t entry prospects’ private data.
All of the whereas, hackers related to the China-backed risk group often known as Salt Hurricane have hacked a whole bunch of cellphone firms world wide, together with in Canada, Norway, the UK, and america, as a part of an ongoing espionage marketing campaign aimed toward spying on senior authorities officers and diplomats.
