Telecommunications group Orange announces it has been the victim of a cyberattack

This has led to a disruption in services for some of its "business customers" and for "some consumer services, mainly in France," the group said.

The telecommunications group Orange announced that it was the victim of a cyberattack on Friday, July 25, on "one of its information systems." This led to a disruption of services for some of its "business customers" and for "some consumer services, mainly in France," the group said in a press release on Monday, July 28. Some services and management platforms "will gradually reopen by Wednesday morning," Orange added, without giving further details.

Orange, which is due to publish its first-half results on Tuesday morning, says it has filed a complaint for "an attack on its information system," assuring that "at this stage of the investigation, there is no evidence to suggest that data from our customers or Orange has been exfiltrated . " "Immediately alerted, with the support of [its cybersecurity subsidiary] Orange Cyberdefense, the teams fully mobilized to isolate the potentially affected services and limit the impacts," the group added.