Pays de la Loire: Ouest-France victim of a cyberattack
Pays de la Loire: Ouest-France victim of a cyberattack
The computer system of our colleagues in Ouest-France was the victim of a cyberattack this morning. The group will reduce its number of editions this Sunday but the daily will appear anyway.
Posted on 11/21/2020 at 6:32 p.m. • Updated on 11/21/2020 at 6:50 p.m.
The editorial staff of OUest-France in Nantes
The editorial staff of OUest-France in Nantes • © France 3 Pays de la Loire
Loire Atlantique
The Ouest-France group, headquartered in Rennes, was the victim of a cyberattack early this Saturday morning. A particularly powerful virus has disrupted the computer system of the great daily newspaper in the west.
The digital platform, the Ouest-France information website , was not impacted but the print editions will be affected this Sunday. The number of editions will be reduced to ensure a publication all the same.
Thus, in Pays de la Loire, in normal times, there is one edition per department on Sunday, against 40 during the week. This Sunday, November 22, there will be a single edition for the whole region.
A particularly aggressive attack
"We have a diagnostic work will be lengthy ad Francis Xavier Lefranc , editor and board member . All group newspapers are going out (Maine Libre, the Western Mail and Press Ocean particular) but there will be grouping of edits to simplify the process and it will be the same pagination. "
"This is not the first time that the group has been the victim of a cyberattack. It happens regularly," adds François-Xavier Lefranc. But this one is particularly aggressive and has managed to thwart the group's defense systems.
A priori, Monday, at least deprtemental editions should be able to appear.
The computer system of our colleagues in Ouest-France was the victim of a cyberattack this morning. The group will reduce its number of editions this Sunday but the daily will appear anyway.
Posted on 11/21/2020 at 6:32 p.m. • Updated on 11/21/2020 at 6:50 p.m.
The editorial staff of OUest-France in Nantes
The editorial staff of OUest-France in Nantes • © France 3 Pays de la Loire
Loire Atlantique
The Ouest-France group, headquartered in Rennes, was the victim of a cyberattack early this Saturday morning. A particularly powerful virus has disrupted the computer system of the great daily newspaper in the west.
The digital platform, the Ouest-France information website , was not impacted but the print editions will be affected this Sunday. The number of editions will be reduced to ensure a publication all the same.
Thus, in Pays de la Loire, in normal times, there is one edition per department on Sunday, against 40 during the week. This Sunday, November 22, there will be a single edition for the whole region.
A particularly aggressive attack
"We have a diagnostic work will be lengthy ad Francis Xavier Lefranc , editor and board member . All group newspapers are going out (Maine Libre, the Western Mail and Press Ocean particular) but there will be grouping of edits to simplify the process and it will be the same pagination. "
"This is not the first time that the group has been the victim of a cyberattack. It happens regularly," adds François-Xavier Lefranc. But this one is particularly aggressive and has managed to thwart the group's defense systems.
A priori, Monday, at least deprtemental editions should be able to appear.
