New cyberattack in France.
The association fighting AIDS, Sidaction, announced that it was the victim of a computer attack very recently, in a press release published this Wednesday, February 28 on the social network X. This violation would jeopardize the data of certain donors.
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“Sidaction has become aware of a violation of the hosting system of one of its service providers involving a possible risk of disclosure of personal data of certain donors
,” indicates the organization created in 1994. The personal information of no less than
“ 20% of people who have donated since January 2023 could be affected
,” she also writes.
IBAN data concerned
If bank card data would not have been exposed, that of bank transfers
“IBAN/BIC would be affected for almost 3% of the impacted data”
, underlines the press release.
In addition, the data targeted by this cyberattack are first and last names, telephone numbers, postal and email addresses, and donation amounts.
“Aware of the consequences that may result from this event, we are doing everything we can to limit its effects and have already informed all those concerned individually. The CNIL was also notified
,” continues Sidaction.
However, it is still possible to make an online donation
“in complete security”
, she assures.