Vodafone Portugal never admitted to knowing the reason for the cyberattack it suffered – Telecomunicações
Vodafone Portugal says that it does not know and that it may never know the reason for the cyberattack it was targeted, which turned off “schools, hospitals and firefighters”, in an open letter published today in the media.
With the title “a force that never goes out”, the telecommunications operator led by Mário Vaz recalls that on February 7 there was a “blackout” (blackout).
“They turned off schools, hospitals and firefighters, families, people, turned off the lives of millions of Portuguese”, emphasizes Vodafone.
“We don’t know, and if we know, because we can’t ever. Perhaps the idea that collaborators will succeed, partners, State and civil society, we will be able to destroy what we are, we will continue.
“We know that technology has astronomical power, but what sets us apart is what we do with it”, asserting that, on the operator’s side, it “will always be at the service of the service”.
Vodafone Portugal was the target of a cyberattack that affected its network and its four million customers. “We will always be on the right side, this is the force that will never be able to erase”, concludes the operator in the open letter.
In this unprecedented attack, Vodafone was confronted, around 9:00 pm on February 7, “with an abrupt interruption of almost all” of its communications services, with the exception of the fixed Internet service and a “significant part still of customers of television”, said the operator’s executive president, Mário Vaz, in a press conference the following day.
“To get a sense of the scale and objective of this attack was clearly to make our network of services unavailable and a level of severity for services to the maximum the recovery of”, underlined the manager, at the time.
The company has here that it has no customers who suspect that the data has been accessed and/or compromised and all operations are back to normal.