Cybercriminal Claims Massive Data Breach at French Education Ministry
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Four days after the revelation of their hacking by DGFIP, the cybercriminals duo claims to have infiltrated the ministry. "CheckNews" was able to consult a sample of these sensitive files, which include the personal data of 1.2 million students.
In a message posted Tuesday on a forum, the hackers, who claimed to have stolen tax data, asserted that they had obtained the personal data of several million French students and tens of thousands of teachers. A leak of "considerable magnitude," according to the specialized website French Breaches.
French tax data hackers claim theft of Education Ministry info on millions of students
The group known as 'ZeroBytes,' which had claimed responsibility for stealing tax data from France's tax authority, said it had also obtained files concerning millions of students and tens of thousands of teachers.
ZeroBytes, who presents itself as a duo of French cybercriminals, claims to have exfiled thousands of files covering a period of more than twenty years, including personal information about minors and National Education staff.
Zerobytes, a cybercriminal group responsible for Bercy's cyberattack, claimed on Monday an illegal extraction of data from National Education. Some data would go back to 2002.
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