The gray hat hacker group LulzSec claims the hacking of EDF and announces having hacked 500,000 customers. The French public company confirms that some accounts have been compromised.
- Hackers from the LulzSec group announce that 500,000 EDF customer accounts have been hacked
- EDF confirms that some customers have been hacked with illicit connections
- There is no indication that the hackers really hacked 500,000 accounts as they claim
Clearly, hacks of French public companies have continued in recent days. EDF is affected through illicit connections as reported by Tech Xataka at the origin of this information. The attack was allegedly carried out by LulzSec, to whom we owe the recent theft of the private data of CAF beneficiaries.
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LulzSec announces the hacking of 500,000 EDF accounts
As EDF indicates to our colleagues, this hack consists of a “twenty illicit connections in spaces dedicated to its professional and community customers (entreprises-collectivités.edf.fr)”. So remember to change your password, as a precaution. For the moment, the French public company is leading the “necessary analyzes to qualify the extent of the compromise and return to a normal situation”.
While waiting for things to return to normal, EDF announces that its site is under maintenance. As with the hacking of Viamedis and Almerys and according to the rules of the National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties (CNIL), people affected by this hack will be contacted.
LulzSec is a group that has existed since 2011
LulzSec boasts on Twitter of being at the origin of this attack against EDF, after that of CAF. The group, born in 2011 and bringing together gray hats, has pirated Fox, Sony Music Japan and Europe, Nintendo and Sega in the past. Although for the moment, you have to take the hackers’ statements with a grain of salt. Nothing indicates that they really hacked 500,000 accounts as they announced on X. EDF only speaks of a few illicit connections.
If data has indeed been stolen, hackers will be tempted to carry out phishing campaigns using the personal information collected. Even more so if these elements are crossed with those of previous hacks. Better pay attention to the text messages and emails you will receive in the coming weeks.
Source: Tech Xataka