A group of hackers seems determined to make a name for themselves by targeting French people's data, and the number of victims does not matter. A group called Near2tlg recently attacked a hospital in Paris, Axa Direct Assurance, The Point and several SMEs in France. The hackers also allegedly attacked SFR's SIBO360 software and recovered the data of 3.6 million of the operator's customers.
Near2tlg put the data on sale on its channel TelegramTelegram and on a dark web forum, for the modest sum of 500 euros. A great price to get people talking about them. They included a sample of the stolen personal data to prove their good faith. However, SFR denies any new attack and attributes this data to the attack in September where 50,000 customer files were stolen. Remember that the company was also the victim of data theft concerning 1.45 million customers in June.
Data from old leaks
This response from SFR clearly did not please the hackers, who published all the data they held. According to Clubicthe firm maintains its position and affirms that these elements “ relate to a past, resolved and already public incident “. The hackers are said to have assembled data from previous leaks, as evidenced by a number of duplicates and incomplete information.
Even if this information does not come from a new leak, it still shows that a large amount of customers' personal data is out there… And this is not the only operator to have suffered a hack recently . Remember that the data of 19.2 million Free accounts was stolen, and will or will not be sold depending on the pirates. And a sample of 100,000 people was still published…
Regardless of your operator, it is safer to assume that your data is already out there, and to be very suspicious of anyone who contacts you, regardless of which organization they claim to belong to, and what information. she already has it.
