150 computers are said to have been hacked into between December and March. Spyware was introduced via attachments on emails sent from pirated email addresses. Head of national IT security agency: “This is the first attack against the French state of this scale” France’s budget minister: “Information has certainly been obtained” by hackers, probably from a source outside France, Budget Minister Fran..ois Baroin said. Some of the information had been redirected to Chinese sites, but “this doesn’t mean much”, Paris Match said.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2011/03/cyber-attack-on-finance-ministry-to.html