France Probes Tax Database Massive Cyberattack
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France probes tax database massive cyberattack
A massive cyberattack in France has exposed the personal information of some 700,000 people. After hackers breached the government database for taxes, it has now been revealed that other government sites have also been hacked.
"If cybercriminals had not claimed their attacks, we would not have known that there were 700,000 stolen personal data," regrets the chief of the LFI MPs on Wednesday on France Inter.
France’s Tax Agency Hands Hackers a Roadmap: How Stolen Logins Exposed 678,000 Records
France’s tax authority suffered a significant breach. Data on 678,000 individuals and businesses left its systems. The intruders never cracked a single piece of software. They simply walked in with stolen credentials. The Direction générale des Finances publiques, better known as DGFiP, disclosed the incident on August 14. A threat actor using the alias ZeroBytes had posted claims two days earlier on a cybercrime forum. He offered the database f…
David Amiel unveiled the first "emergency measures" after the massive computer attack on the tax system. To avoid any problems, the tax administration revealed a new breach in its systems.
Fébrile to the idea of a lawsuit in inertia after the theft of tax data, the executive multiplies the communications and apologized to the taxpayers concerned. A third attack detected on the estate files could undermine this attempt.
The leak was "rapidly cut off", said the head of the Directorate-General for Public Finance Amélie Verdier, who assured that this "breche" was "not at all of the same magnitude" as the tax data theft announced last week.
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