Guadeloupe kickstarts continuity plan after wide-ranging cyberattack

guest · Nov 26, 2022

By Jonathan Greig @jgreigj - November 25, 2022

The French island of Guadeloupe is dealing with the aftereffects of a cyberattack, according to a notice on the government’s website.

Officials said the attack occurred on Monday and that they immediately put in place a service continuity plan in order for them to “carry out the essential missions of the administration.”
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The government hired cybersecurity experts and mobilized a team to limit the impact of the incident. In an update on Friday, the government announced they are still analyzing the attack to understand the extent of it and restore systems to their normal activity.

“At present, we know that the overall management of high schools and public transport services, under the jurisdiction of the community, are, for the moment, preserved,” officials said.
The statement notes that the government is working with CNIL – France’s data protection authority – as well as France’s National Information Systems Security Agency (ANSSI), the National Police and the Gendarmerie.
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The government also warned citizens to be wary of phishing messages over text and WhatsApp, urging people not to respond to unknown messages or open attachments from numbers they don’t recognize.

In a statement to RFI earlier this week, the government said it shut down all computer networks “to protect data.”
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Guadeloupe is an overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean consisting of six islands with a population of about 385,000.
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