Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said that French authorities have detected and prevented 68 cyber attacks related to the 2024 Olympics since July 22.
Two of these attacks targeted the Olympic venues at Bercy and La Villette in the French capital last Thursday, Mr. Attal said on Wednesday (July 31).
"All 68 of these cyber attacks, including two cyber attacks targeting Olympic venues, were promptly detected and stopped," Attal said, although he did not provide details. details about the nature of other attacks.
Mr. Attal resigned as Prime Minister but remained as head of the interim government, at the request of President Emmanuel Macron, while Paris hosted the Summer Olympics.
This year, the French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI) said it has trained various units involved in protecting against cyberattacks to prepare for the increase. such efforts during the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The 2024 Olympics opened last Friday amid tight security.
Just before the Olympics, French authorities launched a major campaign to clean up computers infected with a cyber-espionage program that had attacked millions of users worldwide.
Organizers of the previous Olympics, held in Tokyo (Japan), reported 450 million cyber attacks, mostly attempts to cripple information technology networks.
The head of technology for the 2024 Olympics said he expected "the number of cyber attacks will be eight to 10 times more" than what Japan has experienced.
