French Interior Minister says hackers breached its email servers

The French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said that threat actors compromised email servers at the Ministry of the Interior, with the incident detected overnight between 11 and 12 December. He added that attackers gained access to some document files but there is no evidence that they were seriously compromised, and the government has launched an investigation which remains ongoing. In response, the ministry tightened security and reinforced access controls across its information systems.

Authorities are exploring all scenarios for the cyberattack, including foreign interference, hacktivism, or cybercrime, while noting that no technical details have been shared publicly. The article also recalls that in April the French government attributed a four-year hacking campaign targeting a dozen French entities to the Russia-nexus group APT28, with prior years of activity in government, diplomatic, and research sectors.