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Orange Romania data breach

From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the February 2025 breach of Orange Romania. For every breach, see Breaches.

The Orange Romania data breach exposed 556,557 accounts from orange.ro in February 2025. The data taken includes partial credit card data, email addresses and phone numbers.[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 27 Feb 2025, within a month. It is the 471st largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

Orange Romania’s breach included 3 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:

DataWhat it’s used for
Partial credit card dataNot enough to spend, but enough to make a fake call from your bank convincing.
Email addressesExpect scam emails that name the company to look genuine.
Phone numbersExpect scam texts and calls, and a higher risk of someone moving your number to their SIM.

What to do

  1. Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Orange Romania among them, without showing the data.
  2. Distrust messages that mention Orange Romania.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
  3. Put a PIN on your phone account.Ask your mobile provider for a port-out PIN, so no one can move your number to their SIM.
  4. Watch your statements.Report anything you don’t recognise to your bank, and ask for a new card if full card numbers leaked.

Timeline

  • : the breach, as best it can be dated.
  • : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, within a month.

Similar breaches

Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:

See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.

References

  1. ^ Troy Hunt. “Orange Romania”, Have I Been Pwned, added 27 Feb 2025. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.