A botnet that in recent months, millions of e-mail addresses and passwords of Germans stable, also has combinations of Dutch, captured. It is sure to be customers of Ziggo, and possibly to customers of other providers.
Ziggo will warn customers who have been affected in a letter that hackers have had access to their accounts. Spokesman Gradus Vos said Sunday night that the approximately two thousand e-mail addresses, and probably also to the passwords of subscribers. Such data are known to be obsolete, but can still be used if they are the last time not been updated.
How criminals the data of Ziggoklanten via the botnet exactly war, know Fox is not. Hackers have, in any case, not directly through the servers and databases access to the accounts. Ziggo recommends customers to change their passwords. This must first be logged in on the klantenbeheerpaneel My Ziggo, which someone with only the address and the password not just can do.
The theft of data of Ziggoklanten refers to a botnet that is estimated to be 18 million combinations of email addresses and passwords are captured, mainly in Germany. That happened after in January, also 16 million combinations were stolen. The German Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik noted that the theft also Dutch accounts were involved and brought the National Cyber Security Centre on the height. That warned Ziggo then. According to Vos, this happened Tuesday.
Because of the scale of the hack, it is plausible that also the e-mail addresses and passwords of customers of other Dutch providers are captured. UPC can’t comment and KPN says there is so far nothing to know about, but the internal to find out. The National Cyber Security Centre late in addition, if requested, will know Monday or after Easter with more information to come.
Update, 21: 30 – Response National Cyber Security Centre added.
