Telefónica is currently sending emails to affected customers, explaining what has happened and recommending that they change the password of their router.
the multinational Telephone has suffered a cyber attack affecting configuration data router for a group of Movistar and O2 clients. The company has recommended affected users to change their WiFi password.
As Expansion has advanced and ACN has confirmed, sensitive data such as name, address, billing or bank details have not been accessed; they have only accessed the brand, the name of the network and the password.
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Telefónica is currently sending emails to affected customersexplaining what has happened and with the recommendation that they change the password of their router.
A spokesman for the company has assured that the only way that the affected networks can be served is that “get physically close to your network“, a “difficult” fact because the data is not linked to the name or personal data of the customer.