A cyber attack of “unprecedented intensity” against the French government claimed by pro-Russian hackers this week failed to stop state operations running, a minister said Friday.
The attack came just months before Paris hosts the Olympics Games in July. The 48-hour effort that started Sunday “hit 800 administrative centres at once” but “at no moment were communications down… every civil servant was well-informed in real time and it did not desta-bilise the functioning of the state,” Civil Service Minister Stanislas Guerini told reporters in Rennes, northwest France. It had been “an attack of unprecedented scale in intensity, in time, and the number of places targeted,—AFP
