The community had to cut its networks, after a hacking affecting a large part of its services since Sunday.
Le Monde with AFP
A month after the department of Seine-Maritime, that of Seine-et-Marne is in turn targeted by a large-scale “cyberattack” paralyzing its IT services since Sunday, the community announced on Tuesday, November 8. “Since this Sunday, November 6, the department of Seine-et-Marne has undergone a major computer attack. Digital services are no longer operational,” the department said in a statement published on Twitter.
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“A first phase of identification of corrupt systems is currently underway to assess the prejudices, limit the consequences of this attack and restore our capacity to act. The community has been forced to cut its networks in order to protect data And isolate your informative system, “added the press release.
No ransom has been requested for the time being, said the department requested by the France-Presse agency, specifying that it has filed a complaint in Melun. 2> the 14 Departmental Houses of Solidarity Assigned
The fourteen departmental solidarity houses and the 5,000 territorial agents are assigned. The teams estimate a complete return to normal within six weeks. “The objective of the president [Jean-François Parigi] is that the Seine-et-Marnais and especially those in difficulty accompanied on a daily basis by the services of the department are the least affected by this cyber attack,” added the department.
The Departmental Council is notably responsible for the payment of the allowance to disabled adults, active solidarity income and personalized autonomy allowance. The citizens and partners are called upon to join their usual interlocutors on their mobile phone, emails and fixed phones being inaccessible.
The department is added to the list of local entities affected in recent weeks by computer attacks, after the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital in August, the city of Caen at the end of September and the department of Seine-Maritime in October. In Essonne, a ransom of $ 10 million, then reduced to $ 1 or $ 2 million, according to sources, had been requested from the hospital center.