Nearly all of the responses came from Chinese servers, Gurviez said, and technicians originally believed it was caused by Chinese sites encouraging patriotic citizens to vote.
"But a few days later we had hackers operating off servers in China try to change our content, and there were 2.5 million attempts to access protected files. We had to shut down the site temporarily," Gurviez told Reuters.
Chinese Internet users have been increasingly active online posting patriotic commentary as the August games approach, and critical of France for not doing more to protect the Olympic torch relay from human rights protesters while it made its way through Paris.
Guerviez said the magazine did not have direct proof the attacks came from Chinese hackers, but it has filed a complaint with the police.
"The attacks came after the torch protests, many were attempts to post pro-Chinese slogans, and all came from computers in China, so I think it's pretty clear, he said.
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