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A couple indicted in Lyon for having passed more than 1000 false health passes

2022-01-21T10:56:15.916Z


After several months of an investigation initiated by the Bordeaux prosecutor's office, the couple was arrested this week in Lyon.


A couple from the Lyon suburbs were indicted this week in Lyon, suspected of having passed at least more than a thousand false health passes by hacking the professional account of a nurse from Gironde this summer, announced Friday 21 January the gendarmerie.

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The imprisoned man, his released wife

The man was imprisoned, in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution, while his companion was left free, under judicial supervision.

The couple had been arrested and placed in police custody on Tuesday as part of an operation mobilizing gendarmes from the Bordeaux research section and the Central Office for the Fight against Damage to the Environment and Public Health ( Oclaesp) from Bordeaux and Lyon.

These arrests are the result of "

several months

" of an investigation initially initiated in Gironde in the summer of 2021, by the Bordeaux prosecutor's office.

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Last August, a liberal nurse working in Le Taillan-Médoc discovered that her professional account dedicated to Covid-19 vaccination formalities had been hacked.

The diversion "

made it possible to generate more than a thousand false health passes in a few days

", specifies the gendarmerie in its press release.

Despite the precautions taken by the hackers, who used "

anonymization software

", the "

thorough and complex investigations

" carried out by the gendarmes made it possible to trace this couple living in the suburbs of Lyon.

9000 euros in cash found

During the searches carried out at their home, the investigators got their hands on a handgun, 9,000 euros in cash, around twenty mobile phones as well as “

a very large number of digital media

”.

In view of the “

scale

” and “

the complexity of the phenomenon

”, a judicial investigation was opened, entrusted to a Lyons investigating judge.

Oclaesp and the cybercrime group of the Lyon research section are responsible for continuing the investigations which are now concentrated in Rhône-Alpes, said the gendarmerie.

Source: lefigaro

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