Giant orange telecommunications of disturbance warnings in the middle of the current cyber attack

Orange, a French telecommunications giant and one of the world’s largest telephony suppliers, announcement On Monday, he was the victim of an unpertified cyber attack.

In the announcement, the company said that it had detected a cyber attack “on one of its information systems” on July 25 and that it “isolate the potentially affected services and minimize any impact”.

The transition to isolate affected systems, added Orange, caused disturbances to some of the company’s platforms, as well as to commercial customers and certain public sector services mainly in France, according to a translation of the declaration. The announcement indicated that the solutions that the company implements will gradually restore the services by Wednesday and that “nothing suggests that internal or customer data have been exfiltrated”.

Orange did not respond to the request for comments from Techcrunch, which included questions about the nature of cyber attack, and if the company has the technical means to detect any data exfiltration.

The company said in the announcement that it was engaging and informed of affected customers, and filed a complaint with “competent authorities”, without providing details. Companies in Europe that are subject to the GDPR, the Bloc data protection rules are required to inform their local data protection authorities within three days of an alleged data violation.

Orange serves 291 million customers worldwide, in 26 different countries, and has 127,000 employees, According to the company.