France: magistrates and lawyers victims of a massive cyberattack
Paris tribunal de grande instance.
RFI / Jan van der Made
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The Paris Court was the subject of a massive computer attack, reveals Le Journal du dimanche.
This hacking affected several Parisian magistrates and lawyers, as well as the public prosecutor Rémy Heitz.
An investigation is underway to find the perpetrators.
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Victim of the cyberattack, the public prosecutor entrusted an investigation to the General Directorate of Internal Security, which is now trying to find the perpetrators of the attack and find out their motives.
A source close to the case said in particular that this attack was of a larger scale, not limited to the Paris court.
Among the victims, lawyer Jean-Marc Delas, specialized in economic and financial criminal law, suffered significant computer damage.
He recounts his mishap: “
I no longer had access to my emails, and above all I received very curious emails from people either contradicting or clients, with whom I had not been in contact for two or three years.
So I immediately understood that my computer was infected.
I warned the computer scientist and then deduced from what undoubtedly, the night before, I identified an email, supposed to come from an opponent, which must have been infected.
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My computer scientist did this complicated work, a day and a half, to put everything in order.
He told me that the virus was virulent and, on the origin, I have no idea.
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Defender of Alexandre Djouhri
For the lawyer, this act is above all malicious and he sees no connection with the cases on which he is working.
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It's not like in companies where when you are hacked you are asked for a ransom.
Me, I have a file, it was mentioned, I defend Alexandre Djouhri who is wrongly presented as the central character of the financing of the Sarkozy campaign in 2007, I do not see the link at all
, explains t he puzzled.
Quite frankly, given the modus operandi, the fact that nothing is claimed, it really does look like a malicious act as we see more and more frequently, it seems to me.
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