The French Interior Ministry has confirmed recently suffering a cyberattack, but the consequences are still being determined. The French Minister of Interior said the attack took place at night, between December 11 and December 12. Email servers were compromised, allowing threat actors to access some document files.
However, it is currently unclear if they managed to steal anything and if so – what exactly. “There was indeed a cyberattack. An attacker was able to access a number of files. So we implemented the usual protection procedures,” Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told local radio station RTL Radio.
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