Ransomware, Content

Ransomware Attacks Orange Business Services, Some Customer Data Exposed

A picture taken on December 5, 2012 shows the logo of French telecom group Orange-France Telecom displayed at LeWeb Paris 2012 in Saint-Denis, near Paris. AFP PHOTO ERIC PIERMONT

A picture taken on December 5, 2012 shows the logo of French telecom group Orange-France Telecom displayed at LeWeb Paris 2012 in Saint-Denis, near Paris. AFP PHOTO ERIC PIERMONT

Orange Business Services, a major telecommunications service provider with an Top 200 MSSP business unit, has suffered a ransomware attack, BleepingComputer reports.

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Orange Business Services offers collaborative workspaces, cybersecurity, data intelligence, connectivity, cloud, Internet of Things, and mobile connectivity services.

Key details from the report Bleeping Computer report include:

  • Orange suffered the ransomware attack starting July 4, 2020, and extending into July 5, 2020.
  • Nefilim hackers gained access to roughly data from 20 Orange Pro/SME customers.
  • As part of the ransom operators' leak, a 339MB archive file was published titled 'Orange_leak_part1.rar' that contained data that was allegedly stolen from Orange during the attack.

    • Ransomware Attacks MSPs, MSSPs, IT Consulting Firms

    The U.S. Secret Service recently warned that hackers are increasingly targeting MSPs. The warning comes nearly two years after the FBI issued a similar warning about hackers targeting MSPs.

    Orange is the latest in a growing list of major IT service providers, MSPs and MSSPs that have suffered ransomware attacks. Other recent victims include Cognizant, DXC subsidiary xChanging, and IT staffing firm Collabera.

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    Joe Panettieri

    Joe Panettieri is co-founder & editorial director of MSSP Alert and ChannelE2E, the two leading news & analysis sites for managed service providers in the cybersecurity market.

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