The Leonardo da Vinci university center targeted by a cyberattack

The Leonardo da Vinci university center located in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine) was targeted by a cyberattack on Saturday evening.

According to

, the staff and students of this private establishment were notified of the situation by email between Sunday and Monday.

The hackers would have had access to a server containing a lot of personal data: marital status, contact details, banking information, administrative documents or even data on the academic background of people appearing in computer systems.

No system crash

After the cyberattack, the affected servers were shut down.

According to the establishment, no malicious use of the stolen data has so far been identified.

As

explains , hackers claimed responsibility for the hack on Twitter as early as Saturday.

However, they would not ask for a ransom, but a reward for having detected the flaws in the computer system.

The computer tools of the establishment have also not been blocked.

The leak was reported to the National Commission for Computing and Liberties (Cnil) and a complaint was filed on Tuesday by the Leonardo da Vinci university center.

An investigation for "attack on an automated data processing system and extortion" has been opened and entrusted to the Sub-Directorate for the Fight against Cybercrime (SDLC) of the National Police.

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