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Tangerine data breach (2024)

In February 2024, the Australian Telco Tangerine suffered a data breach that exposed over 200k customer records. Attributed to a legacy customer database, the data included physical and email addresses, names, phone numbers and dates of birth.

Victim
Tangerine
records
243.5K
SectorTelecom
CountryAustralia

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2024-02-18, Tangerine was affected by a data breach. Approximately 243,462 accounts were exposed. In February 2024, the Australian Telco Tangerine suffered a data breach that exposed over 200k customer records. Attributed to a legacy customer database, the data included physical and email addresses, names, phone numbers and dates of birth.

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Tangerine
  2. tangerinetelecom.com.auhttps://tangerinetelecom.com.au

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