Piracy of the DGFiP: Anssi Tells How Stolen Passwords Led to the Disaster
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In particular, the cybersecurity agency, The Anssi, demonstrates "inadequacies in the supervision" of the IT systems of the Directorate-General for Public Finance, which was hit by a historic cyberattack.
The National Information Systems Security Agency (Anssi) reported in an incident report released this Tuesday that this data was stolen from nearly 700,000 individuals and businesses as a result of "weaknesses" in the tax information systems.
According to the National Information Systems Security Agency, thefts of personal data hosted by the tax authorities this summer are "not the result of a sophisticated attack"
On Tuesday, ANSSI released its incident report on the recent hacking of the DGFiP. Between stolen agent identifiers, lack of double authentication and past unnoticed exfiltrations, the document details how data from hundreds of thousands of users leaked this summer.
Stolen identifiers, over-open accesses, and unnoticed exfiltration of past data. In a report published on September 29, 2026, the ANSSI goes back to the hacking of DGFiP, which it describes as revealing structural weaknesses. Several warning signals existed, but they were not corrected.
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