French Seine et Marne departement council victim of a cyber attack

On 8 November 2022, the departmental council of Seine et Marne in France announced that its IT infrastructure was unusable and blocked. Despite the intervention of a crisis unit, the department announced that it would not be able to resume normal activity for at least 6 weeks.  

IT staff were forced to shut down the servers that were attacked to prevent further damage. Departmental staff are unable to receive or send emails or access their internal files, which puts the administration in difficulty in providing social services to citizens. 

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