Tax Hack: What We Know About the Cyberattacks on French Government Agencies
The agency said attackers sold the stolen information to two buyers for thousands of euros and warned of phishing and impersonation scams.
- France's tax authority DGFiP confirmed a data breach affecting roughly 600,000 people, exposing tax identification numbers, household composition, and income reference data.
- Alleged cybercriminal ZeroBytes claimed to have stolen data belonging to more than 2 million individuals, conflicting with DGFiP's earlier count of 678,000 that officials never explained.
- Separately, the Tax authority disclosed a "technical vulnerability" in the government's Vacant Successions Portal , suspending the service while stating no evidence of personal data leakage has emerged.
- Budget Minister David Amiel announced Tuesday his ministry will use artificial intelligence tools to test cybersecurity vulnerabilities, prioritizing "sovereign" AI providers like Mistral over US-based alternatives.
- This incident adds to a difficult year for cybersecurity across France's public sector, following breaches at the Health Ministry and France Titres, as experts say France remains one of the countries most targeted by cybercriminals.
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The massive hacking of the DGFiP highlights the scourge of theft of personal data, which is multiplying in France and affecting millions of people. The consequences can be very costly for the victims, but it is possible to limit the risks.
In June and July 2026, the Directorate General of Public Finance underwent a computer intrusion that compromised the tax data of 678,000 users. Bernard Martinez, a retired seven-year old in Perpignan,...
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IT Security News - cybersecurity, infosecurity newsFrench tax authority says break-in exposed data of 600K, including some private messages
France's tax authority says attackers may have stolen the contents of messages exchanged with hundreds of taxpayers during the data raid it confirmed last week. In an update published this week, the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) said lists of messages exchanged with the authority were exposed. For around 250 people, the compromised information also included the messages themselves. Slightly more than 350,000 individuals were aff…
The French tax authorities have confirmed in recent days that they have been hit by a massive theft of personal data. On-line, an Internet user who presents himself as a "hacker" claims that France is "probably the most hacked country in the world", referring to a report on the subject. If several rankings place our country among the most targeted by various cyberattacks, they must be interpreted with caution. - VERIF' - The tax victim of theft …
The large data leak that hit the Directorate General for Public Finance (DGFiP) at the end of June is only the latest in an impressive series of intrusions that have targeted public administrations since the beginning of the year.
TRIBUNE. The hacking of sensitive tax data of nearly seven hundred thousand French at the Directorate General of Public Finance is a grievous accident that must no longer be analysed as a trivial technical malfunction, but as proof of a bureaucratic model unsuitable for the current technological challenges, assures Arnaud Dassier, general delegate of the UDR and entrepreneur in the field of cyber.
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