For several weeks the Health Insurance icon has been deactivated. It would be a response to an “upsurge in computer attacks”.
The France Connect system has lead in the wing. The portal created in 2015 to facilitate identification on public service sites does not work optimally. One of its options, connection via Health Insurance, has not been available for several weeks. In the other direction, it is also not possible to use the other access methods on the Ameli site. Users must therefore refer to other identifiers such as those of the impots.gouv.fr site.
The official reason displayed on the sites is “technical maintenancesupposed to last until the end of August. But the version advanced by the Chained Duck is quite different. The weekly evokes a letter explaining a voluntary withdrawal sent by the National Health Insurance Fund (Cnam) to the Interministerial Directorate of Digital mentioned (DINUM). The Cnam would deplore the “France Connect’s gaping security flaws“. Ameli threatens not to reestablish its links with the system until security updates have taken place.
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The DINUM admits to havingnoted in recent months an upsurge in reports passing through France Connect“. She says new protections were put in place this summer.
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