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French Government Embroiled in Taxpayer Data Hack Decried as Country's 'Most Serious' Ever

Summary by Le Monde
Opposition senators have also called for a parliamentary inquiry after the large-scale cyberattack on the Finance Ministry last week.

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The Minister for Public Accounts, David Amiel, offered his apologies on Tuesday for the massive tax hack – affecting at least 678,000 individuals and professionals with their tax data and 430,000 individuals with their land registry records. Furthermore, the tax authorities acknowledged a third data breach, quickly contained, concerning inheritances.

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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The Minister of Public Accounts expressed his regret at the historic cyberattack against DGFiP. A third computer breach concerning estate data was also

·France
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VIDEO - Amélie Verdier, Director General of Public Finance, spoke this Tuesday, August 18 on tax piracy and confirmed a "third leak" on estate-related data.

·France
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This leak, however, is "not at all of the same magnitude" as the recent piracy targeting the tax authorities, said the DGFiP on Tuesday. Public Finance Minister David Amiel presented him with "apologies" to the private victims of these piracys.

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A new cyberattack XXL was claimed on Monday night by the same hacker as for the tax website. The data of more than one million students and officials were hacked. Names, addresses or administrative information, they are on sale, accessible to scampers for several thousand euro. Over the first half of this year, more than 43 million French accounts have fled. How can we explain that the state seems to have become a digital passory? (Police, justi…

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Le Monde broke the news in Paris, France on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
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