Charlie Hebdo website hacked

An investigation was opened after a complaint from the weekly

concerning a hacking of which his site was the subject this Thursday.

“An investigation has been opened into fraudulent access to an automated data processing system” but also fraudulent maintenance, introduction of data, fraudulent modification of data, fraudulent extraction of data and obstruction of the operation of such a system, has said the public prosecutor.

This hack comes eight years almost to the day after the attacks that decimated the editorial staff of

and while the newspaper finds itself at the heart of a diplomatic controversy after the publication Wednesday of cartoons on the Iranian regime deemed insulting by Tehran.

“Data for sale”

According to a source familiar with the matter, there was an "attack on the commercial website and defacing of the homepage", but without "any significant claim" at this stage.

"The investigation is starting," it added.

“Data would be on sale, this must be verified”, also indicated this source, referring in particular to personal information concerning “several thousand subscribers”.

According to

, files stolen from the newspaper have indeed been put online.

The unidentified hacker claimed responsibility for the operation on at least two discussion forums, on which he claims to have obtained access to numerous internal and confidential documents, as well as to the data of more than 200,000 "customers" of the company. 'weekly.

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