Data violation in the giant Bouygues of French Telecom affects millions of customers

Bouygues Telecom, the third largest airline in France, confirmed an electronic attack and a data violation affecting millions of customers.

in A statement posted on its websiteThe wireless and wireless communication giant said that the penetration allowed the infiltrators to access personal information on 6.4 million customer accounts. Bouizz said he had discovered the electronic attack on August 4, but he did not give a time frame when treating the breach.

in Separate page Bouygues for victims of the cyber attack said that stolen data includes communication information for customers and contractual data, or their civil status (or company data if the subscriber is a professional), as well as international bank account numbers.

Bouizz said it has about 26.9 million customers over a mobile phone.

The electronic attack was reported to the Data Protection Agency in France, CNIL.

At publishing time, bouygues’ web page About the cyber attack contains the hidden “Noindex” brand in its source code, which guides search engines to ignore the page, making it difficult for anyone to search for the web to find the page.

Bouygues spokesman did not immediately respond to a comment requesting details about the electronic attack, or explaining the reason for hiding the page from the search engines.

The breach news comes shortly after An electronic attack at Orange Orange French TelecomThe largest phone flying company in the country and one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. On July 29, Orange told that customers expect to be disabled as he moved to “to be able to be affected.” Orange serves more than 290 million customers worldwide.