A cyberattack affects millions of Telefónica customers, although the company claims none are in Spain.
The perpetrator, cybercriminal Dedale, presents a database of one million records as evidence and demands a ransom of $1,500.
BarcelonaTelefónica is investigating a cyberattack carried out by cybercriminal Dedale, through which he allegedly gained illicit access to 22 million customer records. The perpetrator has leaked, as evidence, a database with one million records.
The same customer can have more than one record (one may correspond to the full name, another to the ID number, another to the address, and others). This means that the cyberattack would not have affected Movistar's 22 million users. The leaked database, with one million records so far, contains data from users in Peru. The company assures that this attack would not affect customers in Spain.
Last month, Telefónica sold its subsidiary in Peru, which is in bankruptcy proceedings, for approximately €900,000 to the Argentine firm Integra Tec International. The cybercriminal is demanding a ransom of $1,500 (about €1,314 at the current exchange rate), a figure far lower than the amounts typically claimed in these attacks. The cyberattack on Movistar was revealed by the cybersecurity company HackManac through the social network X.
