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The initial estimate of the material damage of the hack carried out by the group of hackers called “Medusa” is 200,000 euros.
Published on 08/23/2023 23:35
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A man uses a computer in Beijing, China, June 1, 2017. Illustrative photo. (GREG BAKER / AFP)
A preliminary investigation has been opened to shed light on a cyberattack who last week targeted computer servers at the town hall of Sartrouville (Yvelines), learned Wednesday, August 23, AFP from the Paris prosecutor’s office. The section for the fight against cybercrime of the Paris public prosecutor’s office took up this investigation under its national jurisdiction. The investigations were entrusted to the judicial police (PJ) of Versailles, specified the prosecution, in particular for the counts of fraudulent access and maintenance in an automated data processing system, extortion in an organized gang and association of malefactors.
On the night of August 16 to 17, the computer servers of Sartrouville, a town located about fifteen kilometers northwest of Paris, found themselves paralyzed after a cyberattack by a group of hackers using ransomware called “Medusa”. In a press release published Thursday, August 17, the town hall assured that the impact of the attack had been “limit” thanks to the rapid intervention of the technical teams which made it possible to “contain and neutralize the incident”.
The town hall does not intend to pay the ransom
According to a complaint against X filed on August 17 by the town hall with the police, and consulted by AFP, the hackers managed to access a lot of sensitive data from the municipality and exfiltrate it. The document notably mentions financial data (payments to companies, community budget, etc.), personal data of municipal officials (RIB, copies of identity documents, or CV), medical data from the center municipal health service, information on nurseries and schools in the city or even the file of vulnerable people.
The initial estimate of the material damage of the hacking is 200,000 euros and the town hall specified in its complaint that it did not plan to pay the ransom or to negotiate.
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