The Paris prosecutor's office on Friday opened a preliminary investigation, entrusted to the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), after a cyber-attack that tried to reach justice actors, AFP learned on Sunday from a judicial source. .
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According to Le JDD, this cyber-attack targeted the Paris prosecutor, Rémy Heitz, but also magistrates, particularly from the financial center or Parisian lawyers in charge of sensitive cases.
A source familiar with the matter, however, told AFP that this attack was on a wider scale, not limited to the Paris court.
The Ministry of the Interior would be concerned.
False emails suggesting old exchanges were also sent to lawyers like Pierre Cornut-Gentille and Jean-Marc Delas.
“
Thursday morning, I saw that I was receiving emails from people who hadn't emailed me for three years, on old files, I didn't understand what was going on.
I had vaguely seen a curious email the day before, which I had tried to open,
”one of the affected lawyers, Jean-Marc Delas, told AFP.
At the end of the day, the latter no longer had access to his computer.
This lawyer's computer system was disrupted for a day and a half.
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More seriously, the investigating judge at the financial center, Aude Buresi, was forced to "
review the schedule of her investigations
" and to postpone summons sent several weeks ago.
The magistrate took care of important and delicate cases such as the Libyan case in which Nicolas Sarkozy is involved or the illegal financing of the former FN.
Since the alert was given at the beginning of the week, the IT services of the court have issued recommendations to all magistrates.
