The community had to cut its networks “on Monday, after a hacking affecting a large part of its services.
Le Monde with AFP
After the town hall of Caen, at the end of September, the department of Seine-Maritime was in turn the victim of a cyber attack. The community explained Monday, October 10, having to cut its networks “completely”, its services now operating “according to a strongly degraded mode”. For the moment impossible to submit individual files “for all youth, sport, bioethanol and low -emission” devices “as well as with the Departmental House for Disableds, according to a press release.
The fixed telephone lines of the department are spared, and the procedures remain possible in paper format for personalized autonomy allowance, disability compensation services and medico-social centers, the latter continuing to honor the rendering -You planned. IT spaces of colleges as well as roads, environment and departmental sites and museums, which are on another network, normally operate, according to the same source.
complaint and declaration to CNIL
The Department, which filed a complaint and issued “a pre -declaration to the National Commission for Data Protection (CNIL)”, claims to have implemented all measures (…) to assess the damage, protect users’ data, and restore [its] ability to act. “
This computer attack is the third suffered in recent weeks by local communities, after the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital in August and the city of Caen at the end of September, also located in the Normandy region. Against the health establishment, the Cybercriminel Lockbit group had finally put its threats and disseminated, from September 23, the data that pirates stolen a month earlier, during a computer attack that had strongly disrupted site activity.