Orange Group confirms breach after hacker leaks company documents

A hacker claims to have stolen thousands of internal documents with user records and employee data after breaching the systems of Orange Group, a leading French telecommunications operator and digital service provider. The threat actor published on a hacker forum details about the stolen data after trying to extort the company unsuccessfully. Orange confirmed the breach to BleepingComputer saying that it occurred on a non-critical application. The company intiated an investigation and is working to minimize the impact of the incident. According to the threat actor, who uses the alias Rey and is a member of the HellCat ransomware group, the stolen data is mostly from the Romanian branch of the company and includes 380,000 unique email addresses, source code, invoices, contracts, customer and employee information. Orange data leak posted on a hacker forum Rey told BleepingComputer that the breach was not a HellCat ransomware operation and that they had access to Orange’s systems for ... Read full article.