A major cyberattack affects the department of Seine-Maritime

The department of Seine-Maritime is touched in turn by a large-scale cyberattack and had to temporarily completely cut off its networks, he announced today.

The departmental public services operate in a highly degraded mode: it is now impossible to file individual files for all youth, sport, bio ethanol and Low Emission Zone (ZFE) schemes, as well as with the Departmental House of people with disabilities, according to a statement.

The fixed telephone lines of the department are spared, and the procedures remain possible in paper format for the personalized autonomy allowance, the disability compensation benefits and the medico-social centers – the latter continuing to honor the scheduled appointments .

The computer spaces of the colleges as well as the directions of the roads, the environment and the departmental sites and museums, which are on another network, operate normally.

The department says it has filed a complaint and issued a pre-declaration with the National Commission for Computing and Liberties (CNIL) and indicates that it has implemented “all measures (…) to assess the damage, protect user data , and restore (his) ability to act. »

This computer attack is the third suffered in recent weeks by local authorities, after the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital in August and the city of Caen at the end of September, also located in the Normandy region.