Keywords: Morocco, Algeria, CNSS, Jabarot, Algerian hackers, Siger. King Mohammed VI, Royal Holding, Mohamed Mounir El Majidi, National Social Security Fund, Ministry of Economic Inclusion, Small Business and Employment,
The royal holding company of Mohamed VI victim of the greatest cyber attack in Morocco since 2014
The Moroccan press assures that its authors were Algerian hackers and among its indirect victims is Siger, the holding of King Mohammed VI, and a royal foundation.
Morocco suffered the greatest cyber attack on Tuesday in a decade during which, among many other companies, Siger, the holding of King Mohammed VI, was affected, according to the revelations of the Moroccan digital daily Le Desk. The whole Moroccan press attributes the attack to a group of Algerian hackers called Jabaroot which posted on Tuesday on a Telegram channel some of the stolen documents, such as the pay sheet of several years of Mounir Majidi, private secretary of the king and manager of Siger.
Mr. Majidi, who occupies other functions, received in 2023 as the manager of Siger an annual salary of around 1.3 million euros, according to the information disclosed. The American magazine Forbes estimated, a decade ago, that the fortune of the Alawite monarch amounted to around 5.5 billion euros.
No other evaluation of the royal heritage has been carried out since. The cyber attack was not directed against Siger, the holding company baptized by the anagram of regis (King in Latin) which, in turn, is the main shareholder of Al Mada, the investment fund controlled by the royal family. Its main objective was the National Social Security Fund (CNSS) and, then, the Ministry of Economic Inclusion, Small Enterprise and Employment.
The CNSS has been stolen from the data of half a million companies, as well as that of more than two million workers affiliated to social security, ranging from their current account to their pay slip. This is where Mounir Majidi’s wage sheet appeared.
In addition to Siger, cybercelics have obtained personal data from employees of the Mohammed VI fund for investment, the Israel liaison office in Rabat, which acts in practice as an embassy, and several banking entities such as the Popular Central Bank and the Credit of Morocco.
In a country where per capita income has barely reached $ 3,500 a year, a tenth of that of Spain, the high salaries of leaders of large public enterprises, such as Royal Air Maroc and Medi 1 TV, as well as private Moroccan and foreign companies, Moroccans amazed. The pay slips are broadcast on social networks and commented with surprise, even indignation.
The CNSS published on Wednesday evening a press release in which it recognizes the cyber attack and indicates that after having carried out “the first checks”, it noted that certain documents disseminated on social networks “are false, inaccurate or incomplete”, but does not give more details on the alleged manipulation.
The hackers group also broadcast a file containing the pay sheets of the Ministry of Economic Inclusion on Wednesday. The entourage of the Minister, Younes Sekkouri, however insisted that his website has no professional database whose looting could harm companies or individuals. The ministry’s website remained inaccessible Thursday, 48 hours after the cyber attack.
-Some Moroccan newspapers say that the attack on Algerian pirates could be a reprisals for a possible action carried out recently in cyberspace by Morocco against its eternal adversary, more precisely against its official news agency (APS).
If such an attack has taken place, there is no trace in the Algerian media, which are generally not long in denouncing the alleged abuses of “hackers” close to Morocco. The relationship between the two “heavyweights” of the Maghreb is very tense.
More than ten years ago, at the beginning of fall 2014, pirated internal documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Morocco and, above all, from the Directorate General of Studies and Documentation (DGED), its external intelligence agency, began to appear on social networks, especially on X.
Thanks to them, we learned, for example, that journalists in France and the United States were paid by the Moroccan secret services and that the alleged sentimental relationship between former president José María Aznar and Rachida Dati, then French Minister of Justice, was a rumor launched by the director of a weekly from Casablanca working for the DGED.
Moroccan authorities published a press release in terms very similar to that released last Wednesday by the CNSS. They did not denume the cyber attack, but assured that the documents had been manipulated without giving more details. We know today that this hacking was perpetrated by the Directorate General of External Security (DGSE), the French secret service acting outside France. Paris and Rabat were already going through a crisis, which broke out in February 2014.
The Moroccan press has published the name of the head of French spies in Morocco, forcing it to leave the country quickly. His colleagues took revenge by triggering the first great cyber attack suffered by Morocco.
Ignacio Cembro
El Confidencial, 04/10/2025
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