the weekly The point was the victim of a data breach that resulted in the dissemination of information supposedly coming from a customer service tool, the newspaper confirmed on Monday, November 18. One Internet user, who appears to have been targeting French companies for several days, posted an online advertisement on November 13 in a discussion forum in which he claims to have obtained hundreds of thousands of personal data related to the weekly.
The Internet user, who asks for the sum of 350 euros in exchange for the database he claims to have, claims to have the information of 900,000 people. At the same time, it distributed a sample of data on several thousand victims: name, first name, email address, phone number and postal address.
“Hackers would have accessed this information [par le biais d’]a customer relationship management tool used by one of the newspaper’s subcontractors »writing The pointwithout confirming the number of victims claimed by the alleged hacker.
The weekly, alerted by the National Information Systems Security Agency (ANSSI), announced that it had filed a complaint with the Paris prosecutor’s office and submitted a report to the National Commission for Informatics and Information Systems (CNIL). The French press leader has also opened a telephone line for subscribers and former subscribers potentially affected by this data theft.
In recent months, French newspapers Release AND the cross They were also the target of computer attacks, this time coming from ransomware, that is, tools designed to paralyze computer networks.
