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  • Meanwhile in Norway much of this wouldn't matter because the accessed information would have been public anyway. The non-tax PII is still a loss of course.
    by iandanforth
  • I've lived for 10 years in France and virtually all spam I receive is from French leaks (I know due to dedicated addresses), which have kept happening since I left. Bourse des Vols, Free, even Doctolib and my hospital (!), and now this. I simply can't trust French companies, it's an awful anecdotal experience.
    by fer
  • Website dedicated to public and private data breaches in France : frenchbreaches.com/

    For government services, they are getting more and more common, it's scary.

    by LelouBil
  • "Ce scénario n'est pas théorique, il a déjà eu lieu. En octobre 2025, la Fédération française de tir se fait voler les données de près d'un million de licenciés et d'anciens licenciés : état civil, adresse postale, téléphone, numéro de licence.

    Les mois suivants, des individus se présentent au domicile de licenciés en se faisant passer pour des policiers ou des gendarmes, parfois en tenue, pour se faire remettre des armes. Des vols sont constatés à Nice, à Paris, à Limoges, à Décines."

    Sounds like a far fetched movie!

    by dmbche
  • "got hacked (in French)".

    Got hacqued.

    by penr0se
  • After 3-4 decades of networked compute, is it now fair to say that 'there are two types of organizations in the world: those that have been hacked, and those that know that they have been hacked.'
    by ninjagoo
  • The post is verbose, but lacks substance:

    - The last two sections (≈20% of the article, 5.Cloud and 6.IA) are barely relevant.

    - Some comparisons are questionable. It claims that, since some taxes data was compromised, the trust in the national Federated Identity is eroded "as if Facebook Connect was hacked". That's strange, I think it should be "as the trust in Facebook Connect would be eroded when Facebook is hacked". Anyway, I think most people won't care.

    - Some sentences make no sense: "Le piratage de Ficoba semble en être l'exemple type"... But "Ficoba" is not mentioned anywhere, and, though I know what the word means, I can't guess what the sentence points to.

    The OP should have mentioned another important hack of French national structures that happened in december 2025 and which is well documented. IIRC, through phishing, a keylogger was installed on a teacher's computer. Then the hackers got credentials to an internal training platform for teachers. Then they exploited multiple security breaches and connections between Ministries to get access to the national police files.

    by idoubtit
  • Previously (in english): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298303
    by ChrisArchitect

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