678,000 People Hit in French Tax Authority Data Breach
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The group of cyber hackers ZeroBytes, the originator of the massive data theft to the Directorate General of Public Finance, claims to have resold the stolen information.
The attack on the Directorate-General for Public Finance (DGFiP), the French tax authorities, has just exposed information to hundreds of thousands of citizens. The Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has seized the file.There was an attack on the Ministry of the Interior. Then the attack on the Ministry of National Education. From now on, it is the Directorate-General for Public Finance (DGFiP), the French tax authority, which has just been stol…
After the cyberattack that hit the tax site, data about hundreds of thousands of taxpayers found themselves compromised. False e-mails, identity usurpation, passwords... Baptiste...
As a victim of a data theft, the Directorate-General for Public Finance begins to warn the victims of this hacking on Monday evening. 678.000 individuals and professionals are concerned.
Are you one of the 678 000 French who received a message from the tax administration this Monday, August 17th? The tax department has been hacked. Information such as surnames, first names, tax income and tax collection rates at source are on sale on the Darknet. It is important to remain vigilant in the face of emails, SMS or calls that you might receive if you are concerned. Do not click on any links and check the sites to which you are redire…
The Prime Minister had convened an inter-ministerial crisis unit on Monday, 17 August.
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