an open investigation into the hacking of the data of 33 million French people

The Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Friday February 9 the opening of an investigation into the recent cyberattacks suffered by two third-party payment operators, Viamedis and Almerys, perhaps the most massive recorded to date in France. This data leak concerns more than 33 million French people, according to estimates from the National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties (Cnil).

Viamedis (subsidiary of Malakoff supplementary health insurance companies Humanis and Vyv) and Almerys (independent Be-Ys group) are third-party payment operators on behalf of supplementary health insurance companies. The complaints filed by the two companies led to the opening of a preliminary investigation, the anti-cybercrime section of the capital’s prosecutor’s office said on Friday, contacted by AFP.

The investigations were entrusted to the Cybercrime Brigade of the judicial police. The investigation concerns the offenses of breach of an automated data system, fraudulent collection of personal data and concealment of a crime.