France’s government chat app Tchap was breached after a single account was compromised, exposing messages and data from public channels. Tchap, the encrypted messaging platform developed by the French government for its civil servants and made mandatory last year, was breached on June 7. ANSSI, France’s cybersecurity agency, detected the intrusion. The vector was straightforward:…
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French government messaging platform Tchap breached via hijacked account
The attack on Tchap, a platform developed for the French public sector, reportedly involved a social engineering attack that compromised a user account.
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French government messaging platform breached through account hijacking
French authorities are investigating a compromise of Tchap, the government’s secure messaging platform, after hackers hijacked a user account and gained access to public chat rooms. Tchap is the French government’s messaging platform for civil servants, ministries, and public agencies. Built on the open-source Matrix protocol, it was developed to keep government communications on infrastructure…