The interface supposed to facilitate administrative procedures for companies was hacked two days after its launch.
Barely launched and already stranded. Two days after its implementation on January 1, the one-stop shop intended to facilitate administrative procedures for companies was hacked, announced Bercy, confirming information from the Parisian . “Despite numerous security tests, we suffered a major computer attackdeplores the entourage of Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy and Finance. Virus creates 100,000 change requests per second“. Consequence: the site rowed for a long time and could not take into account the new requests, before Bercy found the parade.
This incident is bad news because it comes on top of many technical bugs reported by several professions as “connection difficulties“, of the “fields not accessible for mandatory data» or a «too much information requested from business leaders(18 questions instead of 3 previously). To which the Ministry of the Economy replied:We do not go from 30% to 100% of dematerialization without jolts“. Despite reluctance from professionals who felt that it was not up to date, this one-stop shop, which replaced the 6 networks of business formalities centres, had been maintained at all costs. Every week, 70,000 procedures are recorded throughout France: business creations, cessation of activity, changes in status, filing of annual accounts, etc.
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Bercy considers for its part that the launch of this one-stop shop, voted in 2019 within the framework of the Pacte law, is a “success, not to mention this computer attack“. “We may be in degraded mode for a few days, but the changeover took place on time. We believe that the one-stop shop will have its final face at the end of March“. Until then, the Ministry of the Economy promises “optimizations“. In particular with regard to the tab “filing of annual accountswhich, according to business leaders, does not work very well.