The French government has said telecommunication lines across France have been targeted by malicious vandals, causing connectivity outages as the Paris Olympic games hit full swing over the weekend.
The complete scale of the impact and whether the disruptions affected any Olympic events or venues is currently unclear. Posting on Elon Musk’s X, however, Marina Ferrari, French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs said landline and mobile serves were affected by the attacks. “Under my supervision, the Center for Defense Electronic Communications cooperates with operators until communications and services are fully restored,” Ferrari wrote. “I condemn in the strongest terms these cowardly and irresponsible acts.
Thank you to the teams mobilized this morning to carry out repairs and restore damaged sites to service.” Reports in local press said connection lines owned by France’s main telecoms companies SFR, Bouygues Telecom, and Free had all been vandalized.
Reuters reports that a spokesman for SFR said vandals had made cuts to its long-distance network in five different parts of France in the early hours of Monday.
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