Orange, the French telecommunications giant and one of the world's largest telephone providers, announced on Monday that it was a victim of an unspecified cyberattack.
In its announcement, the company said it had detected a cyberattack “in one of its information systems” on July 25th and proceeded to “separate potentially affected services and minimize the impact.”
According to a translation of the statement, the move to isolate the affected systems has caused disruption to our platform and the services of business customers and some public sectors, primarily in France. The announcement said the company's solutions implementing will gradually restore services by Wednesday and “there is no evidence to suggest that internal or customer data has been expanded.”
Orange did not respond to a question about the nature of CyberAttack and a request for comment from TechCrunch regarding whether it has technical measures to detect data delamination.
In the announcement, the company said it was attractive and informed the affected customers, and filed a complaint with “related authorities” without providing details. European companies subject to the BLOC data protection regulations GDPR must notify local data protection authorities within three days of suspected data breach.
Orange serves 291 million customers worldwide in 26 countries, with 127,000 employees, according to the company.