Morocco Hit by Massive Cyberattack: Personal Data of Nearly 2 Million Workers Exposed
Morocco has recently fallen victim to one of the most significant cyberattacks in its history. On Wednesday, April 9, the National Social Security Fund (CNSS) announced the launch of an investigation following a large-scale cyberattack, resulting in the leak of personal data of 1,996,026 workers employed by nearly 500,000 companies.
The exposed information, made public on Tuesday, includes names, email addresses, ID numbers, and banking coordinates. Among those affected are ordinary citizens, as well as prominent figures from the economic world, such as the CEO of Royal Air Maroc and the eldest daughter of the head of government.
A group of hackers calling themselves "Jabaroot DZ", based in Algeria, claimed responsibility for the attack on the public organization and the dissemination of the stolen file on Telegram on Tuesday evening. The attackers claim to have acted in retaliation for alleged acts by Moroccan hackers, who they accuse of compromising the X account of the Algerian Press Agency (APS).
In a statement relayed by the MAP agency on Wednesday evening, the CNSS indicated that "initial checks on certain disclosed documents have revealed that they were frequently false, inaccurate, or truncated."
