8.7 million customer Data Breached from Russian ISP

Recently the data of 8.7 million Beeline customers including personal details such as full names, addresses, and mobile and home phone numbers.was sold and shared online.

Beeline is a Russian telecommunications company with clients in Russia, all of Asia, and Australia admitted to the breach.

Beeline told Kommersant, a Russian News Agency that this incident happened in 2017 and that they found the persons responsible at the time, although they never made the hack public.Also, it said that only the data on Russian customers who signed up for home broadband connections, before November 2016.

The vast majority of the leaked data was from users who are not Beeline customers anymore, the company said. Customers in Australia, New Zeeland, Kazahstan, Armenia, or other countries where the ISP has a presence, were not impacted.

Beeline has more than 50 million subscribers in Russia but said that only 3 million are broadband customers, with the bulk being mobile subscribers.