Tax Hack: What We Know About the Cyberattacks on French Government Agencies
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The French tax authorities have confirmed in recent days that they have been hit by a massive theft of personal data. On-line, an Internet user who presents himself as a "hacker" claims that France is "probably the most hacked country in the world", referring to a report on the subject. If several rankings place our country among the most targeted by various cyberattacks, they must be interpreted with caution. - VERIF' - The tax victim of theft …
The large data leak that hit the Directorate General for Public Finance (DGFiP) at the end of June is only the latest in an impressive series of intrusions that have targeted public administrations since the beginning of the year.
TRIBUNE. The hacking of sensitive tax data of nearly seven hundred thousand French at the Directorate General of Public Finance is a grievous accident that must no longer be analysed as a trivial technical malfunction, but as proof of a bureaucratic model unsuitable for the current technological challenges, assures Arnaud Dassier, general delegate of the UDR and entrepreneur in the field of cyber.
Tax hack: What we know about the cyberattacks on French government agencies
French government systems came under attack by hackers who stole information on hundreds of thousands of households and private businesses in June and July, notably from the tax authority. Here's what we know about the latest cyberattacks, and what the government is doing to keep personal information secure.
Three cyberattacks in a month against the French tax authorities: the DGFiP collects the blows and tries to minimize. But in the meantime, pirates already have enough to mount phishing campaigns particularly targeted against millions of taxpayers.
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