This entity of the Ministry of the Armed Forces could have been infiltrated by Russian hackers who would seek to obtain personal details.
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Lhe upper echelons of the French army are on the alert. As BFMTV reports, the National Office for Veterans was the victim of a cyberattack in December, which the French army services took several months to stop. According to the news channel’s website, the hackers attacked the servers, the software, but also the databases of this entity of the Ministry of the Armed Forces, which had never been attacked in this way before.
According to several concordant sources, this cyberattack could be the work of Russia, and experts even go so far as to affirm that the Kremlin would seek to enlist members of the French army. The National Office for Veterans was targeted for good reason, since the hackers were seeking to appropriate the combat card, an ultra-sensitive file that contains multiple personal data.
If Russia had managed to have access to it, it would have been able to get its hands on all the telephone numbers of French combatants and former soldiers, to get in touch with them.
French soldiers as relays from Moscow
What generate serious concerns in the ranks of the Grande Muette, as evidenced by the tribune of Vice-Admiral Patrick Chevallereau, published Thursday, January 19 in The Sunday newspaper, where he fears that “former French soldiers are contributing to the interests of the Kremlin” in the midst of the war with Ukraine. Among them would be some senior officers, now retired, who would serve to disseminate and legitimize the actions of Russia, especially on social networks.
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“It gives a certain military technical credibility to which we grant a form of legitimacy to a hidden agenda which sometimes voluntarily or involuntarily serves the interests of the Kremlin”, emphasizes to BFMTV Patrick Chevallereau.