The Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), responsible for managing 39 public hospitals in Île-de-France, was the victim of a computer attack on Sunday, in the midst of a coronavirus crisis, AFP told AFP concordant sources, confirming information from lexpress.fr.
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" The AP-HP suffered Sunday, March 22, 2020 late in the morning a denial of service attack ", consisting in generating a large amount of simultaneous connections to overload the servers, " on two of its Internet addresses ", explained l 'Public establishment.
The hour-long attack " was managed by the AP-HP provider and never reached its infrastructure, " added AP-HP. According to an official from the Information Systems Security Agency (Anssi), " the incident was managed quickly and efficiently by the AP-HP teams, without critical impact ". " The situation has returned to normal, " he added.
During the attack, the service provider decided to reduce internet access " to better manage the situation ", which had the consequence of blocking external access to messaging, Skype as well as external access to the applications of the AP-HP, specifies the public establishment.
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All access outside Europe was also blocked, " which stopped the attack and allowed a gradual restart of internet access ," he adds. A judicial investigation for " access to and maintenance in an automated data processing system implemented by the State " and " obstructing the functioning of an automated data processing system implemented by the State " has been opened, we learned from the Paris prosecutor's office.