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The Cegos training organization victim of a major computer attack
Published on 20 avril 2021by La Revue du Digital in the news feed with No comments

The Cegos training organization suffered a large-scale computer attack on Thursday, April 15. He communicates today. Cegos proceeded to the complete isolation of its information system, in particular from the Internet. The company filed a notification with the CNIL and a criminal complaint with the public prosecutor of Nanterre.

Cegos' first objective is to accurately assess whether personal, confidential or commercial data has been compromised. Its accounting and invoicing tools are currently out of service. The sales, staffing, logistics and management teams work manually, on the basis of file records. Fixed team telephone lines are unavailable.

Cegos claims to be the victim of a malicious and highly organized group.A technical unit has been set up to carry out all possible investigative and remedial actions. A strategic unit must anticipate the consequences of the attack for its employees, its activity and its stakeholders, and in order to take all the necessary measures. During the cyberattack, personal data may have been affected. An investigation is being carried out by specialized service providers in order to determine the extent of this impairment.