No more internet access and all mailboxes. The headquarters of the construction giant Bouygues Construction in the Yvelines is in turmoil since Thursday morning. A cyber attack affects the operation of the company and the work of employees.
"We have detected a viral crisis on the Bouygues Construction computer network," confirmed the group, which said, without giving further details, that an analysis was underway to determine the extent of the problem.
"The business continues in the meantime, the sites are turning and there is no paralysis of activity", ensures the communication of the group of Martin Bouygues.
SMS to communicate internally
However, the first accounts point to a company idling for hours. "This morning, it was impossible to connect to the Internet or the intranet," says a thirty-something employee who has worked for the company for almost ten years. Telephone lines have also been cut because they are connected to the Internet. "
Deprived of access to their mailboxes, the 3,200 employees of the site received an SMS Thursday morning announcing "a viral alert with a general cut in the DataCenter Challenger", the name of the headquarters of the construction giant based in Guyancourt (Yvelines ).
The message specified that all messaging and applications were inaccessible for an "unknown period". Another message later reported "a viral crisis that was detected on the computer network. The analysis of causes and impacts is underway ”. The next step was reassuring: "The first security actions have been put in place both internally and for our customers".
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According to our information, the group's foreign employees are also unemployed without access to their professional email.
