Like many French local authorities in recent months, the town hall of Angers and the urban community of Angers Loire Métropole were victims of a cyberattack.
During the night of January 15 to 16, attackers blocked the information system.
“The website, that of the libraries, the software, the computers… Everything was out of order,” said
an elected official.
The servers are quickly shut down to prevent the attack from spreading through the system.
"The diagnosis concluded with a ransomware-type attack which struck La Rochelle, Aix Marseille, Vincennes, Ademe ... in the recent past"
, explains the metropolis in a Facebook post, to inform its inhabitants.
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The cyber attack has immediate consequences on the lives of citizens.
Closure of municipal libraries due to lack of access to databases, inability to issue a birth certificate or to carry out procedures relating to identity documents, all service terminals at reception
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