A 22-year-old computer student was arrested in Ollioules (Var) and indicted on Friday, according to information from France 3 Provence Alpes Côte-d'Azur.
He would have admitted to being at the origin of the computer attack of the Hospitals of Paris this summer and of the theft of files of millions of people who carried out a screening test for Covid-19 in Ile-de-France.
On September 15, the Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) revealed the theft of data from 1.4 million people who notably carried out a test in the region in mid-2020.
The national file of screening tests was not targeted, but "a secure file sharing service", used "very occasionally in September 2020" to transmit to the Health Insurance and regional health agencies (ARS) information "useful for contact tracing".
A young anti-pass
Opposed to the health pass but not to vaccination, the student "demonstrated the weakness of the AP-HP, whose fallibility of the computer system was undermined and revealed by a teenager," said his lawyer, Me Rachid Madid, interviewed by BFM TV.
The young man was placed under judicial control, but left free pending judgment, according to Mr. Rachid Madid.
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