French language test website down

"The French language test website which foreigners in France use to obtain the certificates now required for many immigration processes has been down for at least a week, leaving students unable to register for exams or access their results."

"Visitors to the site trying to register are met with a predominantly white screen and a short message saying: "The DCL website is currently closed for maintenance. It is due to reopen shortly"."

"The DCL website outage has been confirmed by French Breaches, an organisation dedicated to monitoring data breaches - although it is not clear whether the problem has been caused by a cyber-attack or technical problems."

"In January, it was also confirmed that there had been a breach of confidentiality on the Ministry of Education's GAEL platform, which processes DELF-DALF diplomas. According to an official statement, that incident affected approximately 5 million exam candidates. Leaked data included personal information including: title, surname, first name, last name, city of birth, country of birth, date of birth, nationality, and mother tongue."

The DCL online portal used to register for French language exams and access results has been closed for maintenance for at least a week. Foreign language learners in France cannot register for exams or retrieve results because the site shows a mostly blank page and a maintenance message. The outage has been confirmed by a data-breach monitoring organization, but the cause is unclear, whether cyber-attack or technical failure. The homepage remains active while registrations are unavailable. The problem follows recent disruptions to other French government platforms, including a reinstated ANTS site after a cyber incident and a prior confidentiality breach affecting DELF-DALF processing on the GAEL platform, which involved millions of exam candidates and leaked personal data.

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