The Japanese Giant Giant NTT Com says that hackers have gained access to details of nearly 18,000 organizations

Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Communications (NTT com) have confirmed that hackers have access to the data of nearly 18,000 corporate clients during the cyber in February, affecting still unknown number of people.

Tokyo -based NTT COM, which provides telephone and network technologies to enterprises, said it had detected a violation of data on February 5 after deciding that the hackers had received “unauthorized access” to an internal system used to manage service orders.

The stolen data include customer names, contract numbers, telephone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses and information on the use of services belonging to 17 891 organizations, according to NTT COM.

NTT com has not yet said how many individual employees of the affected organizations have taken personal information in the violation, nor did the company share details about the companies that have stolen data. NTT COM has more than 100,000 corporate clients in 70 countries worldwide, According to his websiteS

NTT com did not immediately answer TechCrunch questions outside of their working hours.

Following the detection of the violation, the NTT com said it “immediately restricted access” to the compromised device within its internal systems. The company, however, said on February 15, found that the attackers had compromised another device on their internal network, which the company said was “immediately turned off”.

It is not yet known who is behind the February violation, and the specific character of the cyberattack remains unknown. Cyberattack on NTT com has not yet been requested by any large ransom group.

In recent years, telecommunications organizations have become a major focus on hackers, supported by cybercriminals and the nation.

In September 2024 it was revealed that the associated China Hacker Group “Salt Typhoon” had violated Several US telephone and internet giants to gain access to private communications by US Higher Students. Salt Typhoon continues to head to telecommunications suppliers According to a recent reportS

Cybercriminals are It is also known that it is aimed at banks at telephone records stored by Telco Giantswhich can be used for additional cyberattacks.

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