Administrations are now a privileged target of computer hackers, who are trying to seize citizens’ data. If several agencies look at grain, activists denounce the lack of “political will” of the government.
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Vannes is attacked in early 2016. Four agents of this municipality of Morbihan, opening a corrupt email, letting a virus penetrate into the city’s computer system. It’s amazement. “What is it flying in a municipality?”, Ask Anne The Hénanff. “We were not aware, pursues the deputy mayor, to possess a good value: no money, no, but from the data, all these data that is collected from the inhabitants.” / p>
The city carries out that the unbridled digitization of the administrative procedures is not safe, and is accompanied by a “responsibility to protect the data”. “The Director of IT warned me, pursues M me Le Hénanff:” This is the last chance. If we do nothing, next time they will crack our security system. “” Vannes rings the tocsin, and stops any digital development for two years to upgrade.
More recently, in the night of December 5th to 6th, an attack on the ranks hit Bobigny’s intercommunal computer (SII) servers, on which several municipalities and public bodies of Seine-Saint-Denis depend. To obtain a birth or death certificate, the inhabitants of Bobigny must now go in person to civil and can no longer be done online, reports the France-Presse agency. No return to normal is in sight for the moment, the union obviously refusing to pay the ransom of 4 million euros requested by the pirates.
Administrations continue to be targeted by cybercriminals for the personal information they own. At the end of October, the services of the town hall of Sainte-Affrique (Aveyron) were attacked. In the summer of 2020, the 1.4 million data carried out a CVIV-19 screening test in Ile-de-France were stolen from Public Assistance-Hospitals in Paris. In June 2021, Pôle emploi complained to the massive flight of unemployed coordinates. According to the figures of the Governmental CyberMalveillance, 1,964 public authorities have been accompanied for this problem this year, a 127% increase since 2018 (865).
National security in play
The same facts are repeated, sowing doubt about how the public power protects billions of data, sometimes hypersensitive, that citizens give it with confidence: social security number, medical follow-up, bank details, revenues, Electronic and postal addresses, name of the spouse, etc. This protection is the responsibility of the National Information Systems Security Agency (ANSSI). But she refused to explain to the world how this treasure is protected. It is, however, “a major issue of confidence of the French in public institutions”, recognizes the entourage of the Minister of Transformation and the public function, Amelie de Montchalin.
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