Weather France, Prefectures and Ministries Sites: with the Critical PHP Fault, the Websites of Many Government Agencies in Maintenance
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Most of the institutions' websites have been inaccessible since Wednesday 21 October 2026 in Toulouse and far beyond, due to a huge computer vulnerability.
Since Wednesday 21 October, several websites of Toulouse institutions, including Tisseo, Toulouse City Hall and Haute-Garonne Prefecture, have been inaccessible. Two security flaws have been identified.
It is impossible to consult certain websites since Wednesday 21 October 2026 afternoon. In Occitanie as everywhere in France, the pages are inaccessible. The Ministry of the Interior, and Météo France have decided to put them temporarily offline after the discovery of a computer security flaw.
The websites of ministries, but also prefectures, including the police prefecture of Paris, as well as Météo-France, are inaccessible at the request of the Anssi, the security agency of computer systems. In question, the discovery of a critical flaw in the PHP programming language.
Prefectures, taxes, Orange, Belgian police, Nintendo: thousands of sites suddenly posted a maintenance page due to PHP's critical flaws. An unprecedented preventive decision to avoid the worst, the time to deploy patches.
Many public sites are out of service this Thursday, and this since the day before. Behind these voluntary and preventive cuts, we find two critical flaws affecting PHP, an unknown computer language but present on a large part of the Web.
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