Orange Romania data breach: 556K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2025-02-27
In February 2025, the Romanian arm of telecommunications company Orange suffered a data breach which was subsequently published to a popular hacking forum. The data included 556k email addresses (of which hundreds of thousands were in the form of [phone number]@as1.romtelecom.net), phone numbers, subscription details, partial credit card data (type, last 4 digits, expiration date and issuing bank). The breach also exposed an extensive number of internal documents. Exposed data: email addresses, partial credit card data, phone numbers. The breach dates from Feb 24, 2025; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 27, 2025.
What to do
- If you had a Orange Romania account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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