The weekly The Point was the victim of a data leak resulting in the dissemination of information allegedly coming from a customer service tool, the newspaper confirmed on Monday, November 18. An Internet user, who seems to have been targeting French companies for several days, posted an announcement online on November 13 on a discussion forum in which he claims to have gotten his hands on hundreds of thousands of personal data relating to the weekly.
The Internet user, who asks for the sum of 350 euros in exchange for the database he claims to own, claims to have the information of 900,000 people. At the same time, he distributed a sample of data concerning several thousand victims: name, first name, email address, telephone number and postal address.
“The hackers would have accessed this information [par le biais d’]a customer relationship management tool used by one of the newspaper's subcontractors »écrit The Pointwithout however confirming the number of victims claimed by the alleged hacker.
The weekly, which had been alerted by the National Information Systems Security Agency (ANSSI), announced that it had filed a complaint with the Paris prosecutor's office and made a report to the National Commission for Informatics and Information Systems. freedoms (CNIL). The French press title has also opened a telephone line for subscribers and former subscribers potentially affected by this data theft.
In recent months, French newspapers Liberation et The Cross were also targeted by computer attacks, this time emanating from ransomware – that is to say tools designed to paralyze computer networks.
Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers The newspaper “Libération” victim of a ransomware attack
Read later
