It is 4:28 p.m. on Monday September 26 when malicious software enters the servers of the City of Caen in Calvados (14).
Two hours from the City Council, the firewalls give the alert.
The Norman city immediately cuts all its servers;
no more city hall website works.
Caen is the victim of a cyberattack.
Civil status services are suspended in the process.
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The alert system perceived the attack of a virus, which allowed us very quickly to break all contact with the outside to protect our systems,
tells France 3 Normandy Nathalie Bourhis, elected mayor of Caen. in charge of Human Resources and administration.
Now we will try to understand the impact and the causes of this event.”
Since then, the municipal site is still inaccessible, as is that of the Caen la Mer urban community. The Caen Memorial site is operating normally.
Site of the city of Caen still inaccessible, twelve hours after a cyberattack Site of the city of Caen.
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The backups have been isolated in order to secure them and the file servers turned off
”, reports for his part the mayor Joel Bruneau to our colleagues from
Ouest-France
.
According to him, all the data was saved, a specialized engineer having been mandated to work on it all night and carry out checks.
A new crisis unit is scheduled for Tuesday morning.