This Sunday morning, it was still difficult to know the extent of the damage caused by the cyberattack which targeted the IT services of the City of Angers the day before.
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We learned on Saturday afternoon that the IT services of the City of Angers had been the target of a cyber attack. A virus has managed to infect the city’s digital tool without being able, for the moment, to give a precise assessment of the consequences.
“We are in the process of appraising everything, we are told internally, the city’s couriers and website are no longer working. “
This is an attack comparable, we were told, to what we experienced in other large cities in France in 2020.
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Last December, the city of La Rochelle was the target of the same attack during a weekend.
“We are facing something serious” We confirm in Angers where it is no longer possible for users to access online services. For the moment, it seems impossible to make an inventory. We should see more clearly at the beginning of the week.
The press release from the City of Angers and the Urban Community:
“During the night from Friday to Saturday, a cyber attack targeted the information system of the City of Angers and the Angers Loire Métropole Urban Community. The diagnosis concluded that a” rancongiciel “type attack hit La Rochelle , Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Vincennes or even ADEME in the recent past. From Saturday morning, the teams from the Information System Department of the City and the Urban Community, in conjunction with the National Authority Security of Information Systems (ANSSI), has established a protocol for backing up and restoring the system.This restoration process will be long and will impact the services provided to Angevins who require the use of IT, and which will therefore be in degraded mode for several days. Municipal and community services welcoming the public obviously remain open. “
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