Odido Data Breach Hits 6.2 Million Customers

Dutch telecommunications company Odido confirmed on Thursday that hackers accessed a customer contact system in early February, compromising personal information belonging to more than 6.2 million customers. The breach, which occurred around February 7 and 8, affected users of Odido and its subsidiary Ben, representing about a third of the Netherlands' population. The company stated that unauthorized actors downloaded data without disrupting phone, internet, or television services.

According to Odido's official notice, the stolen information included customers' full names, phone numbers, postal and email addresses, dates of birth, customer numbers, bank account details in the form of IBAN numbers, and government-issued identification data such as passport or driver's license numbers and expiration dates. Former customers who had service within the past two years may also be impacted, though business accounts were not affected. Odido emphasized that the breach did not involve passwords, call records, location data, billing information, or scanned images of identification documents.

The company detected the intrusion during an internal investigation starting February 7 and...