Blackout.
It is a little after 4:30 p.m. on Monday September 26 when, in a few seconds, the screens of the town hall of Caen have gone out.
Very quickly, a computer scientist gives the alert and cries out for a cyberattack.
All servers were immediately shut down, computers isolated.
A saving reflex for this city of more than 100,000 inhabitants which risked a massive theft of data.
“It would have taken 40 minutes to encrypt them entirely
, according to Hélène Drieu, director of the DSI service.
We had to deal with ten intrusion attempts per second”.
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This story is reminiscent of the recent cyberattacks on the cities of Angers in 2021 or Atlanta in the United States in 2018. More than a year later, the former capital of Anjou is still suffering the consequences.
Nearly a billion euros have been spent, services, such as the reservation of places in nurseries, are still at a standstill.
According to the ANSII, National Agency for the Security of Information Systems, it takes about two years for a…
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