The Japanese telecommunications giant NTT COM says that computer pirates accessed the details of almost 18,000 organizations

The Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Communications (NTT COM) has confirmed that computer pirates accessed the data of almost 18,000 corporate clients during a February cyber attack, affecting a number of people still bewildered.

The NTT COM, based in Tokyo, which provides telephone and network technology to companies, said it discovered data violation on February 5 after determining that computer pirates had obtained “unauthorized access” to an internal system used to administer service orders.

Stolen data includes customer names, contract numbers, telephone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses and information on the use of the service that belongs to 17,891 organizations, according to NTT com.

NTT COM has not yet said how many individual employees of the affected organizations had personal information taken in the violation, nor has the company shared any detail about the companies that stole data. NTT COM has more than 100,000 corporate clients in 70 countries around the world, According to your website.

NTT COM did not immediately answer TechCrunch's questions outside their work hours.

After detecting the violation, NTT COM said that “immediately restricted access” to the committed device within its internal systems. However, the company said it discovered on February 15 that the attackers had committed another device on its internal network, which the company says it was “quickly disconnected.”

It is not yet known who was behind the violation of February, and the specific nature of cyber attack is still unknown. Cyberattack in NTT COM has not yet been claimed by any important ransomware group.

Telecommunications organizations have become an important approach to cybercriminal computer pirates and backed by the nation in recent years.

In September 2024, it was revealed that the piracy group “Typhoon of Salt Typhoon” linked to China had violated several telephone giants and the Internet from the United States. UU. To obtain access to private communications from high officials of the United States government. Salt Typhoon continues to attack telecommunications suppliers, according to a recent report.

It is also known that cybercriminals are directed to the banks of the telephone records stored by telecommunications giants, which can be used for other cyber attacks.

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