Sfr, Free and Now Bouygues Telecom: French Operators Are Being Hacked in Mass, Affecting Millions of Customers

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Nearly 10 days after Bouygues Telecom's pirate attack, Cybermalveillance alerts about risks and good practices to be adopted. The device reveals in detail the data involved in this violation. On August 6, Bouygues Telecom confirmed that it had been a victim two days earlier of a cyberattack that led to the violation [...] The article Massive leak of Bouygues Telecom subscribers' data: the situation, the risks and the way forward with Cybermalvei…

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Bouygues Telecom announced that the data of 6.4 million of its customers had been stolen. This new hacking raises questions about the measures taken by the operators to protect themselves against hackersThe question will soon not be "what Frenchman has seen his personal data stolen?", but rather "who was lucky not to have been the victim of a hacking?" Boutade aside, France lives at the pace of massive cyberattacks against its telecom operators.…

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Bouygues Telecom, the victim of a cyberattack, leaked data from more than 6 million customer accounts last week. Extreme caution is therefore advised if you receive a suspicious-looking text message from the operator... unless it really is a text message from the operator!

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While telecom operators are increasingly targeted by large-scale cyberattacks, the lessons of 2024 must guide cybersecurity practices in 2025. CNIL recorded 5,629 violations of personal data last year, a record marked by an explosion of incidents affecting more than one million people. [...]