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UNBELIEVABLE: France recorded significant rise in cyberattacks linked to paris olympics | History Defined

Cyberattacks went up considerably before and during the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, the French agency of cyber security (Anssi) said in its report released 11 March, 2025. ANP/AFP/File

France's National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (Anssi) reported 4,386 "security events" on computer systems in 2024, an increase of 15 percent from the previous year, according to data revealed on Tuesday.

During the Paris Olympic Games and the rest of the year, 2024 was marked by a "large number of destabilisation attacks", noted Anssi in its report entitled Panorama de la cybermenace (Panorama of Cyberthreats), published on Tuesday.

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