French taxpayers' data stolen in cyber attack, French Finance Ministry says
Investigators are still determining which records were exposed as affected taxpayers will receive direct notices, the ministry said.
- On Aug 13, the French Finance Ministry confirmed a cyberattack compromised taxpayer data held by the General Direction of Public Finances, affecting both individual and professional taxpayers.
- A "malicious actor" claimed on Wednesday to have infiltrated the systems last month. Investigations confirmed systems were penetrated and that "personal data was accessed and exfiltrated" during that period.
- FrenchBreaches, a platform monitoring cyberattacks, reported that about 700,000 taxpayers had their information stolen based on data from the hackers. Ministry representatives have not responded to requests for comment on this figure.
- Affected users will receive individual notifications from the ministry specifying which information was compromised, along with recommended precautionary measures. No timeline for these notices has been provided.
- Further investigations are underway to identify specific types of information compromised and determine the exact number of affected taxpayers. The ministry stated additional findings will be disclosed as the probe continues.
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RECIT - This Friday, the Director General of the Tax Administration, Amélie Verdier, apologized to the taxpayers and lifted the veil on the "compromission" that his services have been subjected to.
The IRS confirmed a data theft in its computer system, shortly after a cybercriminal claimed a second attack on cadastral files.
This sequence is likely to fuel targeted frauds against "some hundreds of thousands" of users at this stage of the investigation, but their number could still be inflated. How many attacks have there been? The two attacks were claimed on a forum for the resale of data from the "darkweb" by a cybercriminal hidden under the pseudonym "ZeroBytes", which already has a history of intrusion into French targets, found an AFP journalist. The first offen…
A computer attack on the tax systems has led to the extraction of personal data from some 700,000 users. A second attack has been confirmed and concerns cadastral parcels.
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