Europe 1 with AFP 2:24 p.m., October 8, 2021
A man was arrested in the investigation into the hacking, during the summer, of the computer system of the Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) during which the health data of approximately 1.4 million people were stolen, we learned on Friday. This concerns "almost exclusively" people who have been tested for Covid-19.
A man was arrested in the investigation into the hacking, during the summer, of the computer system of the Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) during which the health data of approximately 1.4 million people were stolen, we learned Friday from a police source.
The suspect was arrested on Wednesday by investigators from the Cybercrime Brigade (BL2C) of the Paris judicial police, the same source said, confirming information from the
Journal du Dimanche
.
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"Identity, social security number, contact details of the people tested"
The AP-HP had revealed in mid-September the theft of these data from people who had carried out "almost exclusively" a screening test for Covid-19 in Île-de-France in mid-2020. It was not the national file of screening tests (SI-DEP) that had been hacked, according to the AP-HP, but "a secure file-sharing service". It was used "very occasionally in September 2020" to transmit to the Health Insurance and regional health agencies (ARS) information "useful for 'contact tracing'".
The stolen data included "the identity, social security number and contact details of those tested", as well as "the identity and contact details of the healthcare professionals taking care of them, the characteristics and the result of the test carried out", but contained "no other medical data".
The AP-HP had lodged a complaint with the Paris prosecutor and the National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms (Cnil) had opened an investigation.