The Centre-Val de Loire Region was the victim of an attempted computer intrusion via its regional Cop satellite site. About ten sites managed by the community have been closed as a preventive measure.
Who wants the Centre-Val de Loire Region? According to our information, the community, chaired by the socialist François Bonneau, was the victim of a cyberattack a few weeks ago.
“There was an attempt to break into the regional COP site, which is hosted on a service provider’s server, not by the Region’s“, defuses Alexandre Tinseau, the chief of staff. “Our director of IT security has noticed the presence of email addresses that we are not used to seeing on the site form“.
As a precaution, all the sites hosted on this server have been closed. About ten, according to the chief of staff. “We are reopening them one by one“.
The regional COP site always displays an error message when trying to access it. “Our site is currently unavailable for technical reasons“, can we read.
For Alexandre Tinseau, there is no need to worry: “There was no ransom demand. It is not an attack as we have seen on hospitals or other communities. It’s an attempted intrusion that failed, because we had the right reflexes“, he swears while acknowledging that these sites “are quite old“.”There was a fragility, so now we are securing and we will renew our capacity to secure these sites“.
It is difficult to know why the site of the regional COP was targeted. And we will probably never know. The Region has not filed a complaint and does not wish to do so: “Because there is no impact, no proven intrusion“, despite the closure of ten community-run sites for several weeks.