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Published: Friday, January 16, 2015 - 4:39 p.m.

Last Updated: Saturday, January 17, 2015 - 24:10

Several French news sites suffered a computer breakdown

Several French news sites suffered an outage on Friday. If an attack jihadi hackers was considered, it would be actually a network outage of Oxalide Websites host.

Many French news sites posted a page like this for a few hours on Friday. © Timothy Krause / Flickr

The timing is surprising. Friday morning, on the stroke of 10 am, several media sites and information (including Francesoir.fr) were temporarily unavailable due to a computer problem Oxalide host that affected "the heart of the networks," according to company.

A light outage that caused a form of anxiety, that of cyber attack from hackers jihadists.Indeed, in recent days, many French sites were victims of cyber attacks , resulting in slowdowns or home pages disfigurements. There were more than 19,000 malicious acts attributable to hackers since the killing of Charlie Hebdo Wednesday, January 7th.

On his Twitter account, the Oxalide host explained, having solved the problem around 11:30 that "the first elements in our possession allow us to rule out a type of external attack DDoS (denial of service, when a website is flooded with connection requests, Ed). "However, the company did not provide any details about the reasons for the failure. She said in a tweet that his teams have discovered the source of the problem, not that it is completely resolved.

The sites of FranceSoir newspapers, 20 Minutes, The Express, Mediapart, France Info, France Inter, Le Parisien, Slate or Marianne, all hosted by Oxalide, became inaccessible to 10am. Sites of e-commerce, such as Sushi Shop or Kiloutou were also disrupted.

Author: Writing FranceSoir.fr

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