French Interior Ministry hit by cyberattack; millions of confidential data stolen.
According to the website of Le Figaro, Laurent Nunez, in describing the current situation, announced that the criminal records processing system (TAJ) and the wanted persons file (FPR) were among the files that were stolen.
He explained this in an interview with France Info radio, admitting that the cyberattack “has hit the French Interior Ministry.”
Nunez, who said that the attack occurred late last week, added: “We still do not know the extent of the intrusion and we do not know [exactly] what was stolen. So far, a few dozen files may have been deleted from the system, but we are talking about millions of data.”
He said: “We were the target of a malicious intrusion by an individual or a group of individuals who accessed our information systems through the Interior Ministry’s email accounts and retrieved passwords from the email accounts.”
Nunez, admitting that the French Interior Ministry had been “careless” in this area, announced the duration of the cyberattack as “a few days.”