Prosecutor's Office opens investigation after massive medical data leak

The Paris judicial tribunal.

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The cybercrime section of the Paris prosecutor's office on Wednesday opened an investigation after the leak on the internet of sensitive medical information from nearly 500,000 people in France, said the prosecution.

The investigation, entrusted to the Central Office for the Fight against Crime Related to Information and Communication Technologies (OCLCTIC), was opened on the head of "fraudulent access and maintenance in an automated data processing system "And" extraction, possession and fraudulent transmission "of these data, said the prosecution.

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