Emails, telephone numbers, personal addresses and even IBANs: the personal data of 1,120 magistrates and lawyers are now in the hands of Kromsec, a group of hackers. As revealed by the Numerama site, the hackers claimed responsibility for this data leak, initially accompanying their comments with an ultimatum: “the sequence of events in France will determine whether or not we publish the data.”
The facts mentioned refer to the riots in various regions of France after the death a few days ago of Nahel, a 17-year-old boy shot to death by a police officer. The document was finally put online on July 3 by Kromsec, revealing several thousand personal details of figures in the legal world.
No Ministry cyberattack
According to information from Numerama, the hackers claim to have recovered these coordinates through a flaw in the Drupal software, a website management system. The “ethical” cyberhacker SaXx evokes on Twitter a cyberattack by the Ministry of Justice.
With Tech&Co, the Ministry of Justice, however, denies any cyber attack on its servers and indicates that according to the first elements, the data recovered and disseminated dates back “several years”. With Tech&Co, the ministry confirms that on July 3 the Paris Prosecutor’s Office filed a complaint due to the dissemination of personal data of the magistrates.
In other circumstances, the Ministry of Justice has already been targeted by hackers. Already in 2016, a hacker had left the ministry’s site inaccessible for several hours. Last January, it was an organization of the Ministry of the Armed Forces that had been the victim of a large-scale cyberattack.
Source: BFM TV
