- TPG Telecom confirmed a cyber attack with the country’s stock exchange agency
- Unidentified crooks stole the login of an employee’s account and used it for exfiltrating confidential data
- The clients of their Inet sub -have were affected
TPG Telecom, an important Australian telecommunications provider, suffered what he described as a “limited” attack, however, judging by the amount of stolen personal information, which “limited” comes with quite large quotes.
The company issued a statement with the exchange of Australia values in which it currently reported investigating a cyber security incident when an unauthorized third party agreed to its Iinet orders management system: internal software tool used within the IINET brand to create, manage and track customer service orders.
The incident was arrested on Saturday, August 16, and preliminary research shows that the origin of the violation was stolen from employees’ account. The company described the attack as “limited” since the system that was violated does not contain extensive data. However, these data still include email addresses for some customers, IINET landline numbers, contact names, contact numbers and residential addresses “for a smaller group of customers.”
Names, addresses and telephone numbers
What the ICEET request management system does not contain are copies or details of identity documents, or credit card information and bank information.
The number of affected people is in the hundreds of thousands: 280,000 IINET active email addresses, about 20,000 active fixed -line telephone numbers, about 10,000 IINET user names, street addresses and telephone numbers, and about 1,700 modem configuration passwords, all stolen.
This could trigger a very convincing pHishing emails wave, voice scams and malware / ransomware implementations through vulnerable modems. Phishing’s emails can lead to the commitment of bank accounts, social media accounts and other services, and could cause identity theft, electronic fraud and more.
“We apologize without reservations with our Iinet customers affected by this incident,” TPG Telecom said in the announcement.
“We will take immediate measures to contact Iinet clients impacted, advise on any action that our assistance must take and offer. We will also communicate with all Iinet clients not impacted to confirm that they have not been affected.”
There is currently no evidence of abuse in nature.
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