Published 22 July 2021
The director-general of ANSSI, France’s cyber defense agency, said France has been under a sustained and sever cyberattacks by Chinese government hackers since the beginning of the year. France has so far abstained from publicly attributing cyberattacks on its infrastructure or on French companies.
France has been under sustained wave of cyberattacks since the beginning of the year and, on Wednesday, 21 July, the French government said that the hacking was the work of Chinese hackers affiliated with the government in Beijing.
The announcement was made the Director General of the National Information Systems Safety Agency (
Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’informations, or ANSSI), Guillaume Poupard.