Data breach at French telecom giant Bouygues affects millions of customers

France’s third -largest phone carrier Bouigs Telecom confirmed a cybertack and data violation of his millions of customers.

In A statement posted on his websiteTelecommunications giants say that the hack has allowed intruders to access personal information to the .4.5 million customer account. Bougiez says it was detected on August 4, but did not give any time limit while remedy the violation.

In An individual page Declared for the victims of CyberTack, Bouigs says the stolen data includes communication data from customers and contractual data, their civic status (or customer is professional, company data, as well as Ibans or International Bank account numbers.

Bougiez says it has about 26.9 million mobile subscribers.

CyberTack is reported to France’s Data Protection Agency, CNIL.

At the time of publishing, Bougs’ Web Its source code about CyberTack has a hidden “nindex” tag, which instructs the search engines to ignore the page, for which the web explorer makes the page difficult for anyone.

A spokeswoman for Bougud did not immediately respond to any request to comment on CyberTack asking for details, or explained why the page was hidden from search engines.

News of the violation comes soon French telecom giant orange is a cybertackThe country’s largest phone carrier and one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies. On July 25th, Orange asked customers to hoping to interrupt the “possible damaged services”. Orange serves more than 290 million customers worldwide.