Monday, March 7, 2011

France: Hackers attacked the Ministry of Finance

150 computers will have been affected: The French Ministry of Finance has become the target of a hacker attack. It appears that the attackers were interested in documents relating to the G20 talks. Paris - France's Budget Minister Francois Baroin confirmed the attacks on a French radio station. "The military now takes care of it," said Baroin on Monday.

There is already a track, but to confirm the present, however, "impossible '. The magazine Paris Match reported that more than 150 computers have been infected with spyware. The sniffer program had successfully tapped documents. have the first reports of hacker attacks on the Economy and Finance are announced in early January.


Since then, an expert working group of national IT security agency ANSSI with 20 to 30 men in the case. Target of the attack had been host of information to the French presidency of the G20, an informant told the news agency Reuters. France took over the presidency in November of 20 leading industrial and emerging countries (G20).

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