Crédit Agricole: the site and mobile application targeted by a cyberattack for several hours

It was a hectic day for Crédit Agricole on Wednesday, February 7. Indeed, the French bank’s online services, including its website and mobile application, were made inaccessible for several hours due to a cyberattack, reports The Parisian. Users experienced difficulty logging in and banking. The bank responded quickly, indicating that a maintenance operation had been initiated and that it was doing everything possible to resolve the problem. Crédit Agricole also assured its customers that no personal data had been compromised and apologized for the inconvenience caused.

«Like many companies these days, we are the subject of a cyberattack aimed at disrupting access to the Crédit Agricole site. fr and the My Bank application», explained Crédit agricole to Parisian. The attack in question was a DDOS attack, which aims to make a server inaccessible by saturating it with requests. This attack was claimed by a group of hackers called Turk Hack Team. On social media, the group said it would continue to target Crédit Agricole’s infrastructure and banking systems and planned to intensify its attacks.

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Political motivations

Political motivations would be at the origin of this cyberattack, who has was claimed by the hacker group Turk Hack Team, a small Turkish nationalist group founded in 2022.We will continue to target your infrastructure and banking systems“, affirms the group on Telegram, adding that they want “intensify attacks more strongly“. The collective is not its first misdeed against French institutions and recently claimed responsibility for a similar attack on several major La Poste services.

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Turk Hack Team allegedly targeted French companies and institutions in response to arms deliveries from France to Armenia. Tensions between Russia and Armenia following the war in Ukraine have led this country to seek new partners in the West, which could explain the attacks targeting French entities.

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