On Thursday, November 21, before the criminal court of Nantes, two men, who worked in the same company specialized in IT advice and assistance, were responsible for several crimes: fraudulent access to an automated data processing system (STAD), modification of data resulting from fraudulent operations. access, fraudulent extraction of data contained in a STAD and violation of the confidentiality of correspondence.
They were arrested in 2023, after an unwanted installation was detected, during a classic intervention, in Ille-et-Vilaine: concerned about the idea that there was malicious software lurking on their servers, the chamber of notaries of this department immediately referred the matter. to the public prosecutor in Rennes, who quickly transmits the file to the public prosecutor’s office in Nantes. A company based in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre (Loire-Atlantique) was quickly discovered by investigators from the digital operational investigation laboratory of the Nantes judicial police. Soon 83 victims are identified. So are two men: they are suspected of having installed, between August 2022 and March 2023, an email redirection rule in numerous studios equipped with an Exchange server to “to look at” competitors.
“I acted like a fool.”
The first is the son of a notary. This 44-year-old father worked for seventeen years as a computer technician at the notary school in Loire-Atlantique before running this company, created in 2016, whose clients are all… notaries. One day in the summer of 2022, he asked the second, a technician who worked for him, to mass implement an email redirect rule. “When he told me that, I told him that it was neither ethical nor legal.”the employee in charge remembers today. “He told me he wouldn’t show himself. And then he was my boss. I acted like a fool,” concludes.
Why are you trying to get copies of the messages? he suspects “a company veteran” play “a double game”. According to him, this former collaborator could ” fly “ clients and “torpedo society”. The redirect rule only targets emails that contain the name of the competitor in question. “We had some crazy days. There were attempts at destabilization, a harmful climate. The context was very competitive”defends himself in court. The prosecutor stands up angrily: “Are you serious?” Is this really your answer to justify your actions? » – ” Yeah “the accused responds.
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