Seriously?! Another Breach.

Oh, joy. Just what we needed. Orange Belgium got pwned. 850,000 customers had their data nicked – names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, *and* email addresses. Like that wasn’t enough, some poor sods even had their national registry number exposed. Fantastic. Just bloody fantastic.

Apparently, it was a vulnerability in a customer support tool they used. A *customer support tool*. You’d think something handling sensitive data would be locked down tighter than Fort Knox, wouldn’t you? But noooo, leave it open for some script kiddie to wander in and help themselves.

They claim the breach happened in November 2023 but only noticed *now*. Months. MONTHS they were potentially leaking data. They’re notifying people now, offering credit monitoring (like that’ll actually fix anything), and blaming it on a third-party vendor. Classic move. Always blame someone else.

Honestly, the whole thing is just… pathetic. 850,000 people potentially dealing with identity theft because some company couldn’t be bothered to secure their systems properly. I swear, if I were in charge of security at Orange Belgium, heads would roll. And then I’d rewrite everything from scratch.

Don’t expect any miracles here folks, just more headaches and spam emails. You’ve been warned.

Source: BleepingComputer

Related Anecdote (Because You Apparently Need One)

I once had to deal with a company that thought “security by obscurity” was a valid strategy. They literally hid their database server in a publicly accessible directory, renamed it ‘pictures’, and expected no one would find it. I’m not even kidding. It took me five minutes to locate it. Five. Minutes. People are idiots.

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