The Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Communications (NTT COM) confirmed that the pirates have accessed data from nearly 18,000 business customers during a February cyber attack, affecting an even unknown number of people.
The NTT Com, based in Tokyo, which provides telephone and network technologies to businesses, said it had discovered data violation on February 5 after determining that hackers had acquired “unauthorized access” to an internal system used to manage service orders.
Stolen data include 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 organizations concerned had personal information taken in the violation, and the company has not shared details on the companies that have been stolen. NTT Com has more than 100,000 business customers in 70 countries around the world, According to his website.
NTT Com immediately answered Techcrunch questions outside of his working hours.
After detecting the breach, NTT Com said that it “immediately restricted access” to the compromised device in its internal systems. However, the company said they discovered on February 15 that the attackers had compromised another device in its internal network, which, according to the company, was “quickly disconnected”.
It is not yet known who was behind the violation of February, and the specific nature of the cyber attack remains unknown. The cyber attack on NTT Com has not yet been claimed by any major ransomware group.
Telecommunications organizations have become a major objective for cybercrimin pirates and national back in recent years.
In September 2024, it was revealed that the “Salt Typhoon” piracy group linked to China had violated several American telephone and internet giants to access private communications from senior American officials. Salt Typhoon continues to target telecommunications providers, according to a recent report.
Cybercriminals are also known to target the banks of telephone recordings stored by telecommunications giants, which can be used for other cyber attacks.
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