Japanese Telecommunications NTT (NTT Com) confirmed that hackers access to almost 18,000 corporate customers during a Cyberattack of February, affecting a number of people.
NTT Com, which provides business and network technology to businesses, said it discovered the data breach on February 5, after finding that hackers had gained “unauthorized access” to an internal system used to manage service orders.
The stolen data includes customer names, contract numbers, telephone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses and information on the use of services belonging to 17,891 organizations, according to NTT com.
NTT Com has not yet said how many individual employees of the offended organizations had personal information received during the breach, nor did the company distributed details of the companies that had stolen the data. NTT com has more than 100,000 corporate customers in 70 countries around the world, According to his website.
NTT com did not immediately answer TechCrunch’s questions outside of his working hours.
After detecting the violation, NTT Com said that “access is immediately restricted” to the compromised device within its internal systems. However, the company said it discovered on 15 February that the attackers had endangered another device inside its network, which the company said it was “disconnected immediately”.
It is not yet known who was behind the February violation and the particular nature of Cyberettack remains unknown. Cyberettack at NTT Com has not yet been claimed by any large ransomware team.
Telecommunications organizations have become a great emphasis on hackers supported by cyberspace and nations in recent years.
In September 2024, it was revealed that the Hacking team associated with China “Salt Typhoon” had violated several American telephone and internet giants to access private US government officials. Typhoon Salt continues to target telecommunications providers, according to a recent report.
Cyberspace criminals are also known to target the banks of telephone files stored by the Telco Giants, which can be used for further cyberettacks.
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