French foreign ministry announced its Travel Alert Registry Hack

The French foreign ministry announced today that its travel alert registry website had been hacked and personal data of citizens “could be misused”.

The French foreign ministry confirmed tha hackers breached into
the Ariane system, its travel alert registry website, and personal data of citizens “could be misused”.

The Ariane system provides security alerts to registered users when traveling abroad. At the time there aren’t technical details about the intrusion or the number of affected people.

“Users reported receiving emails notifying them that their names, cellphone numbers and email addresses may have been stolen, but the ministry said none of the data was “sensitive” or “of a financial nature”.” reported the AFP press.

statement did not indicate who might be behind the attack.

The ministry started notifying the incident to the affected users, it also informed media to have taken necessary measures to avoid similar incidents in the future.

“We immediately took the necessary measures to ensure this type of incident would not happen again,” it said.

The Ministry confirmed that the site was now secured.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(Security Affairs –Travel Alert Registry, hacking)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.