Telecompaper reports:
French internet host OVH informed its customers on 22 July that the private data of a few hundreds of thousands of European private and business customers had been compromised by a hacker. Founder and CEO Octave Klaba wrote to subscribers that the internal network of its headquarters in Roubaix was breached when a hacker gained access to one of the system administrators’ e-mail accounts. Using this e-mail access, the perpetrator was able to break into to another employee’s internal VPN and then to the account of a system administrator who handles back-office functions.
Read more on Telecompaper.
The Register provides additional details, here. I love the line in OVH’s advisory:
“In short, we were not paranoid enough so now we’re switching to a higher level of paranoia. The aim is to guarantee and protect your data in the case of industrial espionage that would target people working at OVH.”
Sometimes, yes, they are out to get you(r) data.