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Hacking of French TV channel was 'terror act'
UPDATED: The French government has denounced a cyber attack on the TV channel TV5Monde on Wednesday evening as a “terrorist act”, as the minister of culture vowed to bring the media together for an urgent meeting to prevent further attacks.
Major French news sites go briefly offline
Several of France's biggest online news sites on Friday temporarily went offline, hot on the heels of a spate of Islamist cyber attacks on almost 20,000 other French websites.
Hackers target Orange in massive client data theft
French mobile phone giant Orange revealed this week that it had been hit by a massive new theft of personal data, that has affected 1.3 million customers. It comes just three months after info on 800,000 Orange subscribers was stolen.