Orange Romania Data Breach

What Happened

In February 2025, the Romanian arm of telecommunications company Orange suffered a data breach which was subsequently published to a popular hacking forum. The data included 556k email addresses (of which hundreds of thousands were in the form of [phone number]@as1.romtelecom.net), phone numbers, subscription details, partial credit card data (type, last 4 digits, expiration date and issuing bank). The breach also exposed an extensive number of internal documents.

Compromised Data

Email addresses
Partial credit card data
Phone numbers

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    556.6 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    February 2025

  • Added to HIBP:

    27 Feb 2025

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