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Orange Begins Gradual Service Restoration Following Cyberattack

The company has isolated compromised systems under heightened monitoring without finding any evidence of data loss.

An Orange SA logo sits on display outside the Orange Paris Opera boutique mobile phone store in Paris, France, on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (Image: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Overview

  • On July 25, Orange Cyberdefense detected the intrusion and isolated potentially affected systems.
  • Containment measures disrupted enterprise management platforms and consumer services in France.
  • Investigations have found no evidence of customer or internal data exfiltration.
  • Teams are working under heightened monitoring to restore main services by the morning of July 30.
  • Orange has filed a complaint under GDPR rules and investigators are probing possible links to China’s Salt Typhoon operations.