Orange Group Confirms Data Breach After Hacker Leaks Documents
French telecommunications giant Orange Group confirmed a data breach on February 24, 2025, after a hacker, identified as 'Rey' and affiliated with the HellCat ransomware group, leaked company documents online.
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- Breach confirmed and reported on February 24, 2025.
- Hacker 'Rey' (HellCat ransomware group) leaked company documents.
- Primarily affected Orange's Romanian division.
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Organization
- Published
- Feb 24, 2025
- Updated
- Jun 26, 2026
- Confidence
- High
- Evidence
- 3 sources
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- Source type: possible insider or internal misuse
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- Confidentiality, Availability
- Likely asset
- User or customer data
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French telecommunications giant Orange Group confirmed a data breach on February 24, 2025, after a hacker, identified as 'Rey' and affiliated with the HellCat ransomware group, leaked company documents online. The breach primarily affected Orange's Romanian division, with the hacker claiming to have stolen thousands of internal documents, user records, and employee data. The exfiltrated data, amounting to approximately 6.5GB across 12,000 files, included 380,000 unique email addresses, source codes, invoices, contracts, customer and employee information, and partial payment card details. The attack reportedly exploited compromised credentials and vulnerabilities in Orange's Jira software and internal portals.
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Singapore Land Authority Data Breach Exposes 70,000 Records via IBM Testing Environment
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SLA stressed that the affected environment is separate from its live operational systems, adding that property ownership and lodgment records in STARS and ELS remain secure. IBM has revoked access to the compromised system to prevent further unauthorised entry. As a precaution, SLA has begun notifying affected individuals and advising them on assistance measures. The authority said it is working with IBM, the Government Technology Agency of Singapore and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore to investigate the incident and implement remedial steps. According to CNA, a police report has been lodged and the Personal Data Protection Commission has been notified. SLA has not yet disclosed when the breach occurred or how many affected individuals have been contacted. 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As part of that work, the supplier managed the development and systems integration testing environment for the two systems. In a statement on 3 July 2026, SLA said it had been informed by IBM of the incident, with preliminary investigations indicating that a dataset created solely for development and testing purposes had been accessed without authorisation. The dataset, created in 1998 and updated periodically over the years, was meant to contain only mock and anonymised testing data based on property ownership and lodgement records. However, SLA said it has since uncovered that the dataset also contained the names, National Registration Identity Card (NRIC) numbers and property addresses of the affected individuals at the time. “This information should have been anonymised but was not,” the agency said, adding that investigations are ongoing to determine how this occurred. SLA noted that the affected environment is “distinct and separate” from its operational systems, with no connection to, or compromise of, the live systems that run Stars, ELS or any other SLA systems. Property ownership and lodgement records remain secure and unaffected, it added. IBM has revoked access associated with the affected environment to prevent further unauthorised access, while SLA has identified the individuals whose information was contained in the dataset, and has begun notifying them and advising them on how to seek further information and assistance. Singapore mobilised over 100 cyber defenders to neutralise a sophisticated APT actor which infiltrated Singtel, StarHub, M1 and Simba networks in the country’s largest coordinated cyber incident response to date . Japan’s Nikkei has confirmed a major data breach that potentially exposed the personal information of more than 17,000 employees and business partners after hackers infiltrated its internal Slack messaging platform. Australian privacy commissioner warns that the human factor is a growing threat as notifications caused by staff mistakes rose significantly even as total breaches declined 10% from a record high. Philippine bank BDO is shoring up its cyber security capabilities to protect its data and systems as it moves more services to the cloud and expands its physical presence into remote areas of the archipelago. The agency is working with IBM, the Government Technology Agency and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) to establish the full facts and ensure remedial measures are taken. It has also lodged a police report and notified the Personal Data Protection Commission, and urged the public to remain vigilant against phishing emails, websites, text messages and phone calls from parties claiming to represent government agencies or other organisations. “We apologise for the concern and inconvenience this incident may cause,” the SLA said. The incident underscores the long-standing risk of real personal data finding its way into development and test environments , which are typically less closely guarded than production systems – a risk that is compounded when those environments are operated by third parties. It is also the latest in a series of supply chain security incidents in Singapore in recent years. In April 2025, Toppan Next Tech, a printing supplier for DBS Bank and the Singapore branch of Bank of China, was hit by a ransomware attack that saw customer data stolen by the threat actor . Some 8,200 DBS customers – mostly holders of DBS Vickers trading accounts and Cashline loans – and around 3,000 Bank of China customers were potentially affected. A year earlier, in August 2024, a hacker who gained unauthorised access to Mobile Guardian , a mobile device management platform then deployed across Singapore’s schools, remotely wiped the iPads and Chromebooks of about 13,000 students from 26 secondary schools. The Ministry of Education subsequently removed the software from all student devices and terminated its contract with the supplier.
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