In France, the communications standards organization, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), announced that hackers have stolen a database identifying its users.  It is not yet clear whether the attack was financially motivated or if the hackers had intended to acquire the list of users for espionage purposes. ETSI brought in France’s cybersecurity agency ANSSI to investigate and repair the information systems. They declined to clarify whether this had been a known vulnerability or a zero-day at the time of the attack.

The director-general Luis Jorge Romero described the hack as a “crisis” and thanked ANSSI for helping the body “determine the remedial actions to be taken, and to strengthen the security of our systems." A judicial inquiry is underway, and the French data protection authority has been informed of the data breach, said ETSI. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page