In February 2025, French fintech Harvest suffered a major ransomware cyberattack, completely paralyzing its digital services, including its official website and customer access via VPN. According to specialist magazine LeMagIT, the incident began with a targeted intrusion exploiting a vulnerability in the company's cloud infrastructure, causing a total disruption to its systems for several days. Numerous financial services offered by Harvest, including investment and wealth management platforms, were severely affected.
This cyberattack resulted in the leakage of customer and employee data. Faced with this critical situation, Harvest immediately mobilized its technical teams and called in external experts to contain the attack and gradually restore its IT systems. In compliance with European RGPD regulations, client companies had to quickly notify the CNIL in order to report this data breach.
Credit : LeMagIT.frCyberhebdo of March 7, 2025: an exceptionally violent week.
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