MCAD Maritime Cyber Attack Database
Year2020 |
MonthJune |
Reference number20200603 |
Impact areaShore |
Incident locationLa Rochelle |
Incident countryFrance |
Victim countryFrance |
Victim identityThe Fountaine-Pajot Yard |
Victim TypeShip Building Company |
MethodHacking |
In June 2020, the in La Rochelle (France) based Fountaine-Pajot Yard experienced a hack in their computer systems. After the hackers worked their way in to the computer networks of the company, they blocked the usage and access to them. This way they managed to slow down the production at the French boat building sites. There is no clarification about the kind of ransomware that was used to block the Computer Systems, bet the goal of the hackers was financial gain.
