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Re:Nearly two centuries ago, France was first hit by a data ... by acqq on Thursday June 14, 2018 @03:47AM (#17310092)
It was not “an attack on the network” as such (the goal was never to disrupt the network's primary functions, so "the France" was really never "hit") but it was actually a “side-channel exploit” (and effectively a kind of "phreaking" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking ). And it was really brilliant!

https://www.inc.com/magazine/19990915/13554.html

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