France will take legal action against the hackers who created an elaborate clone of official diplomacy sites. Photo / Natalie Slade
France will take legal action against the hackers who created an elaborate clone of official diplomacy sites. Photo / Natalie Slade
PARIS: France yesterday suffered what might be called a bad web day. A pirate internet site looking like the official Foreign Ministry site began bombarding the world with bogus declarations and announcements.
At the same time a long-awaited official site which is supposed to present a can-do image of Franceto investors and tourists collapsed on its first day.
The Foreign Ministry announced that - if it could find them - it would take legal action against the web pirates who created an elaborate clone of official French diplomacy sites.
It has also added a series of bogus diplomatic initiatives, including a purported decision by Paris to repay the "90 million gold francs" which Haiti paid to France in post-independence reparations from 1825 to 1947. Bernard Valero, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, said the site was a mixture of "false information and fraudulent copies" from official French and European sites.
