Paris (France) (AFP) - The French regional bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa declared this Wednesday that a computer attack of which it was the victim allowed it to carry out "fraudulent operations", although it did not confirm the amount of 133 million dollars advanced by the newspaper Le Télégramme.

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The bank, the arm of French financial services giant Crédit Mutuel in the Brittany region and elsewhere in western France, said the attack was now "under control" and there would be "no financial consequences" for its customers.

Arkéa decided to "temporarily suspend certain transactions" to avoid "new fraudulent movements", but assured that "the resumption of these operations will take place quickly, under optimal security conditions."

According to the Breton newspaper Le Télégramme, the fraud was made public by ZachXBT, an independent researcher specialized in tracking funds in blockchains.

According to specialized journalist Grégory Raymond, whose message in X is cited by the newspaper, 'hackers' would have withdrawn the stolen sums and transferred them to multiple accounts opened on cryptocurrency exchange platforms.

Arkéa has not detailed the method used by the pirates.

This attack occurs less than a week after the hack of the cryptocurrency giant Binance, which estimates the volume of assets affected by the cyberattack of which it was a victim at $6.3 billion.

France is among the countries most attacked by hackers, due to the attractiveness of its data but also to certain weaknesses in its defenses, according to several reports and experts.

Stolen information is often resold on the black data market and used for scams.

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