Bamako claims to have hacked a French company to recover electoral data. Malian hackers working for the transitional authorities, of the French company Idemia accused of having " taken hostage" these data.

With this accusation, Bamako justified, at the end of last September, the indefinite postponement of the presidential election scheduled for this month of February. No official reaction either from the company in question, Idemia, but a source close to the company assures RFI that “Mali has always had access to the data system”